Creativity Matters
“We start from the presumption that our people are talented and want to contribute. We accept that, without meaning to, our company is stifling that talent in myriad unseen ways.”
Ed Catmull, President of Pixar Animation and Disney Animation
Business and daydreaming don’t seem like the most congruent pair out there; business at its heart is about profitable productivity whereas daydreaming for most amounts to little more than wasting time. But in the long run, allowing the mind to wander boosts creativity and creative insight, lending itself to the long term success of a […]
The Golden Rule, which states “do unto others as you would have others do unto you,” is a powerful statement and a good guideline for how to treat others in the world. But when it comes to creativity, its message is subtly limiting, for it asks us to focus on how we would like to […]
Next month, on May 11th and 12th, spiritual teachers, health and wellness professionals, and business leaders from around the world will be gathering in San Francisco for Wisdom 2.0 conference, engaging in a creative dialogue about how the benefits of wisdom traditions can be incorporated into new and innovative business practices. Here’s a look at […]
One of the most creative and innovative people of late to triumph on the world stage is Malcolm Gladwell, author of three wonderfully entertaining and educational books: Blink, The Tipping Point, and Outliers. I have learned a lot about creativity from reading Gladwell’s books. Not only that, his way of writing, his way of […]
One of the core components of creativity is interdependence, a felt sense of connection with the places we inhabit, the activities we engage in, and in this case, our relationships with others. Here is an excerpt from an interview on NPR’s To the Best of Our Knowledge of Joshua Wolf Shenk on Lennon and McCartney […]
