Leading With A Whole New Mind
Six Senses and Leaders
My colleague, Robert Rasmussen, an expert in using LEGO SERIOUS PLAY, writes in his ezine: "Over eight years, Charles Palus and David Horth, researchers at the Center for Creative Leadership and co-authors of "The Leader’s Edge, Six Creative Competencies for Navigating Complex Challenges", observed several hundred individual leaders. The authors found six interrelated creative competencies…
Read MoreThe Bottom Line of Design
A few issues back,Fast Company magazine was focused on design, with a special section titled, "Masters of Design." A great quote that illustrates how design is a competitive advantage: "A three-year study of more than 40 Fortune 500 companies by the research firm Peer Insight found that companies focused on customer-experience design outperformed the S&P…
Read MoreHow Gen Y Celebrates
Birthdays are now opportunities to make meaning in a larger way–supporting a creative artist or organization. I recently received a birthday invitation from a Gen Y-er that was part celebration, part philanthropy, part concert–held at a local theatre with a blues singer on stage, donations going to a Denver art center. While the wealthy may…
Read MoreKnow Me, Trust Me
Ad from PricewaterhouseCoopers shows the use of story to increase trust. Rather than showing a stock photo of employees hard at work on behalf of its customers, PricewaterhouseCoopers chose to tell the story of one its employees and link it to their business: "I grew up the middle child in a family of seven kids.…
Read MoreCreativity at the Beach
Last month, the Wall Street Journal reported on a small software company, Red Swoosh, that opted for a change of scenery in April 2006. Four developers moved their offices to a beach in Thailand for six weeks. The idea was to regenerate the team, and thus their thinking. The result was both better deliverables and…
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