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
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” Friedrich Nietzsche This last week, I had the opportunity to spend a bit of time doing something I hadn’t done in a long time: Listening to LP’s. Not files from my iTunes, not CD’s, not cassettes […]
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Get your FREE copy of Austin’s infographic, Creativity in the Workplace: How to Build Cultures of Innovation. Here’s a talk I gave on “Mindfulness and Creativity in the Workplace”, as part of the “Authors at Google” program on October 8th, 2015. Big thank you’s to Google, to the author of the forthcoming book, Pause, Racheal O’Meara, host […]
(NOTE: 30,000 people are not moving to Denver per day, as I erroneously stated in the video, but per month. Sorry for the confusion!) Education can help or hinder creativity. In January 2007, while standing in the check out line at a book store, I noticed an article on the cover of The New Yorker […]
Do you have a pile in your inbox that’s just getting bigger? Are there unpaid bills, unreturned phone calls, repairs to your car, your bike, your home, or your computer that you’ve been putting off? What about your health? Do you have a sore tooth, a persistent ache, or something that you know needs […]
