Directing our feelings and thinking to be more creative
Do you remember how much you felt and thought as a child? Probably a lot, especially if you were gifted and creative. As an adult, we may have learned to cover up or set aside much of our inner life, in order to get along with others and do our jobs. But if we want [...]
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Creativity Wheel – Assess your creativity capacities for #WCIW
I like this graphic because it highlights the ‘people’ side of creativity – feelings, actions, and behaviours. When coupled with different tools and techniques, new ideas, new decisions and new actions are very close indeed. Want to assess your creative capability during World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 – 21? Plot yourself, and perhaps [...]
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Keep creativity simple for World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15-21
Greetings all, I know some of you are wondering what to do for your World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15-21 because you know you’ve got it. You know you can, and the others around you can… generate new ideas make new decisions take new actions to make the world a better place and to [...]
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Fun Failure: How to Make Learning Irresistible | MindShift
See on Scoop.it – Creativity and Learning InsightsFailure is a positive act of creativity,” Katie Salen said. Scientists, artists, engineers, and even entrepreneurs can advance their learning through having fun.See on blogs.kqed.org Marci Segal, MS. Creativity and Change Leadership. Freeing leaders’ thinking so they can create new futures.
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Listen to the Kids….
Thanks again to Women in Science and Engineering who invited me to present at their 2013 conference Imagine, Innovate, Inspire held at the University of Toronto this weekend. My 90-minute interactive keynote: Language to Leverage Creativity: Prepare to Nuance your Networking was fashioned so participants would: learn something new that would help them get to [...]
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What ‘going viral’ looks like
As someone with a preference for information that is concrete, practical, tangible and real, I appreciate Microsoft Labs infographic and 3-minute video describing the power of social network viral: what it is, what it looks like and how to track it moving forward. (Source Fastco’s Infographic of the Day: Watch Microsoft Visualize Viral Content.) In [...]
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The Future by Al Gore: Paradigm Cracker. Why our creativity is important now.
If you are considering what might be next and are open to stretching your thinking a bit, this blog post is for you. I’m reading The Future by Al Gore and am wowed by the synthesis of factors he presents and how they interact in ways we never imagined, nor experienced. It provides fodder for [...]
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Use Flitch Meetings to Bring your Organization’s Silos Together
Flitch meetings blur boundaries between organization silos. Strategic and brave leaders, those with an open mind to innovation and sustaining a culture that supports gaining insights and cooperation through collaboration, use them. What’s a flitch meeting? A meeting where a problem in one area is solved by another department. If you are looking for something [...]
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Sweating Your Way to Creativity
Creativity: The ability to bring together disparate ideas in new and useful combinations. You like? I read it in a review of Christopher Bergland’s The Athlete’s Way: Sweat and the Biology of Bliss in Psychology Today. He makes good points about the benefit of ‘sweat equity’ (ouch the pun!) in the creative process. Albert [...]
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New Word: VUCA, what it is, what it does and how to handle it
So proper, isn’t it. A new word to describe what we’re all feeling, the situations we face, and what others around us are dealing with too, and on so many levels, all at once. VUCA = Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity. What a whirlwind, no? (Check out VUCA’s description in Wikipedia and its platform for [...]
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