For many businesses and organizations, the ability to innovate, to come up with new products, services, and ways of being as well as the ability to tackle complex problems and challenges, can be the difference between thriving and floundering. What steps, though, can you take right now to actively promote the creativity of your team […]
[VIDEO] Diversity and Unconscious Bias: The Creativity Matters Interview with Kia Afcari
Creativity and Diversity What is the connection between creativity and diversity? What are the links between inclusive organizational cultures and innovation? How do businesses and organization that actively promote diversity perform in comparison with those that do not? Earlier this year I had the pleasure of interviewing Kia Afcari, a culture, change, diversity, and inclusion expert. Born […]
[VIDEO] 7 Reasons Creativity is Essential for Your Company’s Success
Want a more detailed list? Check out the sister post, Why Creativity is Essential for Your Company’s Success. Want to make the world a better place? Across all industries, the world is begging for creative and innovative solutions. The 7 reasons creativity is essential for you company’s success include: Survival Growth Innovation Collaboration Leadership Meaning Legacy Want a […]
[VIDEO] The Last Safe Investment: The Creativity Matters Interview with Bryan Franklin
The Last Safe Investment: Spending Now to Increase your True Wealth Forever Bryan Franklin is the co-author (along with Michael Ellsberg) of The Last Safe Investment: Spending Now to Increase Your True Wealth Forever. The Last Safe Investment is a powerful and timely book that challenges traditional (and completely broken) strategies of traditional investing, affectionately termed the […]
[VIDEO] Creativity and Bay Area Innovation, Part X: Burning Man and the Primordial Ground of Creativity
“It is, we are, I am,” is the secret mantra of creativity that drives people back to the desert each year, to return sleep-deprived, covered with impossibly fine dust, and, though there is an outward call for self reliance and Self-expression, to return with a felt sense of having participated in something much, much larger […]
7 Reasons Creativity is Essential to Your Company’s Success
Want long term success for YOUR company, all your valued team members, and all your valued customers? Follow these 7 simple guidelines: 1) Survival Creativity is no longer a feel-good, luxury item of “the creative class” but an essential (and learnable) skill for your entire organization. Here’s the tough news for your company: As the global marketplace […]
[VIDEO] Creativity and Bay Area Innovation, Part VIII: The City of Gold
Gold is revered cross-culturally because it seems to build a bridge between this world and some other. The City of Gold The peninsula currently known as San Francisco has had many names, and based on the number of indigenous tribes living in the area before the Spanish arrived, many more than I’ll be able to report. […]
[VIDEO] Creativity and Bay Area Innovation, Part VII: The Spirit of Transformation
To have a landscape peppered with snake-like rocks, as occurs in the Bay Area, is not insignificant for creativity and innovation. In every creative act, something is always transformed into something else. When you begin to adapt creativity as a way of living, you begin to see it flourishing everywhere. And part of living a […]
[VIDEO] Creativity and Bay Area Innovation, Part VI: Play!
One of the most undervalued aspects of creativity and innovation is the aspect of play. Though children do it naturally, we adults tend to neglect its value, often falling into the trap of relentless, unceasing productivity. Ground zero for play grounds Recently, I made a trip The Koret Children’s Playground in San Francisco’s Golden Gate […]
[VIDEO] Creativity and Bay Area Innovation, Part V: The Spirit of Cooperation Fueling Innovation
…it’s no accident that high tech arose in the Bay Area and not in the more established intellectual hotspots of the East Coast. Whereas East Coast companies such as IBM and Xerox were both secretive and insular, not wanting the secrets behind their advances to be leaked out to competing companies, the cooperative environments of […]