The art of management

Management has much to learn from the arts.
http://www.economist.com/node/18175675

HELP!!!

If you land on this blog from cyber-space you may be able to help me.
For several years I have been running creativity workshops [and speaking at creativity focused conferences] - 1 day, 2 day and 5 day -both in New Zealand and overseas. I love doing them. The feedback has been great.











In all sectors of our society there is a call for more creativity, more innovation - but very little actually seems to be being done about it. I would like to do more and perhaps you might be able to help me.
Each workshop needs a minimum of 10 people who are willing to explore their creativity at a venue conducive to being creative - the best ones being bush, beach or inner city.
I run the local ones from my home.
If you are in New Zealand you can come to me or I can come to you. If you organise a workshop you get a free place. I will also consider overseas requests.


Email me on wayne@future-edge.co.nz if you would like more information.













If you know of any people or organisations that might like to have a workshop let them know or put them in touch with me.

Danny Gregory wrote a book I wished I had written. It is called ‘The Creative Licence’. He starts it off by saying:

“Too many people seem to feel they are not creative. They’d love to write or draw or paint or dance or act or play music but are afraid to even try. Some of them wish they could be more creative professionally, but have taken a career path that makes it seem impossible. Others have begun to dabble in creative matters but somehow find themselves blocked or limited or lost and need help to break through.”

If you want to put more creativity into your life or more life into your creativity then the creativity workshops are for you.


Thanks for your help.

A Curious Summer

The way education should be!
Go to http://acurious.org/ and hit the buttons on the left side with the intriguing titles of stitch, shelter, curious cafe, stop motion, labrynth etc and enjoy education at its best.

The Talent Code

Daniel Coyle The Talent Code - great book and great blog
More here: http://thetalentcode.com/2010/10/06/how-to-be-more-creative-step-1-destroy/

Is there a creativity crisis?

Tom Stewart says creativity isn't a linear, consistent phenomenon but rather happens in clumps.
More here: http://bigthink.com/ideas/2864

What sparks Moby's creativity?

This from Big Think.
http://bigthink.com/ideas/5206

What sparks your creativity?

This from Calvin Trillin - author and journalist - on Big Think
More here: http://bigthink.com/ideas/4477
There are a whole heap more on Big Think - just search for creativity.

Creativity Habit: COURAGE

Twenty years into his acting career, Norton still feels like an "idiot" and a "fraud" whenever he begins a new project. This sensation is similar to what all innovators face, he says, and you have to learn to push through it.

More here: http://bigthink.com/ideas/26855

How do you design for creativity?

http://www.slideshare.net/bud_caddell/how-do-you-design-for-creativity?from=share_email

Putting creativity on the company agenda

An entrepreneur offers a system for nurturing creativity and focusing it on business problems.
http://www.industryweek.com/articles/putting_creativity_on_the_company_agenda_23853.aspx