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Creating a Business: Last fall I gave a short workshop on small business development for my local SCORE chapter -- a wonderful community... -
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Tag Archives: creative process
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
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
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
The Ravelled Sleeve of Care
It would perhaps be best to lead in with a quote from A Winter’s Tale, but a line from the Macbeth comes to mind at this time of year instead: Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care, The … Continue reading
European Conference on Creativity and Innovation
I will be traveling to Brussels at the end of October to present a workshop at the 11th European Conference on Creativity and Innovation. It’s a great opportunity to get to know some people in the creativity field in Europe, … Continue reading
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Riding the Arc of the Story: Inciting Obstacles
All of a sudden, you have it: a beautiful idea! It comes to you full blown and shimmery. Perhaps something brand new you’ve never before conceived, or perhaps the result of pondering long and hard. Regardless, there it is: exciting, … Continue reading
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Fear of the Pink Tutu
Over the past several months, I’ve been part of a team developing an experiential program on creativity and innovation for business audiences. We are now stepping up our marketing efforts for the program, and in the course of this I … Continue reading
Primary and Elemental
Two books in my current stack, having a conversation with each other: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, by educator par excellence, Sir Ken Robinson, PhD; and poet David Whyte’s Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage … Continue reading
Janus and the Big Tent
Janus is the Roman god with the two faces, one looking forward and one back (or: in opposition). In the 1970′s, psychiatrist Albert Rothenburg coined the term “Janusian Thinking” to describe the oppositional energies that are often present in creativity. … Continue reading
Buffalo Bound: The Creativity Quest
Recently I’ve become aware of the many ways that people respond to the question of “creativity.” For some, it ‘s a fluffy,vague, floaty immateriality—the stuff of bohemia. For others it bespeaks their own artistic expressions–expressed, or stifled. Others see creativity … Continue reading
