Category Archives: Creative Problem Solving

Creating a Business

Last fall I gave a short workshop on small business development for my local SCORE chapter — a wonderful community resource for entrepreneurs and small business owners. The content was focused on using the creative process deliberately as a tool … Continue reading

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Creativity and Leadership

What are the natural relationships between creativity and leadership? I’ve recently explored this question in relationship to current issues in creativity studies, through my Master’s work at the International Center for Studies in Creativity. Both creativity and leadership are huge … Continue reading

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Novelty and Trimtabs

I’ve been exploring how creativity works within a creative organization. The project will be wrapping up shortly. In the next few blogs, I’ll be sharing some overall insights I’ve had in exploring creativity within a creative organization. I’d like to … Continue reading

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Clarifying and Developing: A Balancing Act

I’m exploring how creativity works within a creative organization — what are the strengths and where are the potential blind spots? In an earlier post, I described how the eight members of the core team recently learned their FourSight Breakthrough … Continue reading

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Diary of a Process: Moving Forward in Uncertainty; Perfecting the Pitch

DIARY OF A PROCESS: MOVING FORWARD IN UNCERTAINTY; PERFECTING THE PITCH Diary of a Process: an episodic peek into a creative company’s internal process. The company: a design and production firm that creates learning environments and opportunities for team-building, exhibit … Continue reading

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Pulling Back the Curtain

What does creativity look like inside a creative organization? How might it be possible to get a snapshot of the internal creative workings of a company that generates creative products (artistic productions, biotech breakthroughs, education/training programs, advertising campaigns, etc.), to … Continue reading

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