Adobe recently asked Forrester Consulting for help in answering the following questions: Productivity and efficiency have been the traditional indicators of business health and performance. What about creativity? Does creativity also impact the bottom line? Does it lead to more business success? In other words, do companies experience a Creative Dividened? The answer: Yes! Companies that […]
Creativity and Gender Equality: The Need for True Empowerment in Both Women and Men
Here’s an amazing TED talk from a new friend of mine, Joselyn DiPetta, whom I fortuitously met in the final moments of the 2015 Wisdom 2.0 Conference after party. Her above talk,”The Missing Piece in the Gender Equality Puzzle” is fantastic, and is a must see for anyone wanting to: transcend the limitations of stereotypes […]
The Power of One: When You Change Your Own Way of Being, You Change the Whole World
Do you desire to build cultures of innovation in your organization or among the networks of people in your life? Here is a great video demonstraiting the power each and every one of us has. When we allow our playful, creative selves to come to the surface, the effects are powerful and amazing; we instantly […]
Transcendence, Transformation, and Transmutation: The Secret Links Between, Insight, Innovation, and Healing
This is a follow up talk to the Creativity and Healing: Re-Establishing Wholeness through Self-Expression
What does the Innovation Required to Restructure the Military Have to Do with the Improv of The Jam Band, The Grateful Dead?
Here is a fantastic discussion on chaos, creativity, and innovation on KQED’s Forum, where Ori Brafman, author of The Chaos Imperative: How Chance and Disruption Increase Innovation, Effectiveness, and Success and Keith Sawyer, the Author of Zig Zag: The Surprising Path to Greater Creativity examine some really profound ideas.
Steve Jobs, Creativity, and His Stanford Commencement Address
In 2005, Apple founder Steve Jobs gave this raw and moving commencement address to the Stanford graduating class. Having dropped out of college himself, been fired from the famous company he started, and been diagnosed and treated for cancer, Steve Jobs’ address is extraordinary, and touches on several powerful aspects of creativity and innovation, most […]
Creativity and Engineering: Last Sunday Marked the 75th Anniversary of the Opening of the Golden Gate Bridge
Last Sunday, the San Francisco Bay Area celebrated the 75th anniversary of the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge. Both the Golden Gate and the Bridge that spans it have been very influential in my life. I moved to the Bay Area when I was 18 and seeing that grand opening left me with an […]
“Corporate Alchemist” Linda Naiman Brings Creativity to the Public Sector
Sometimes it takes a bit of crisis to usher in a fresh wave of creativity into a place that is insular and prone to inertia. Here is a story of how the global economic crisis has perhaps brought a fresh, creative air to the managers of Canadian Heritage, a branch of the Canadian government that oversees […]
Creativity and Innovation: “How Outsiders Solve Problems that Stump Experts”
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.” –Suzuki Roshi Here is a wonderful article that addresses the shadow side of being an expert. Since experts are those who have accumulated a body of knowledge around a given subject, that same knowledge can create filters and blind spots […]
Creativity and the Super Geek: A Look at the Amazingly Creative Life of Nikola Tesla
“Geeks stay up all night so that they can disassemble the world and put it back together with new features.” This is the opening line of a tongue in cheek biography of one of the greatest and least recognized inventors who ever lived: Serbian American, Nikola Tesla. Behind such inventions as alternating current, X-rays, and […]