Innovating Through Artistry
This weekend I had the true pleasure of "taking-in" a TARGET store- and not just running through it looking for the extra large containers of toilet paper and Tide. Positioned as the household-one-stop everything- spot, replacing the old Main Street Five and Dime, TARGET understands the core reason buyers come in droves to buy. They … [Read more...]
In a world where interruption, abruptness and "me first" rules, is it really any wonder we are economically struggling? How can we deepen trust and increase listening to build cohesive teams in this kind of disconnected environment? Long ago I watched my father purchase a bankrupt diesel engine foundry business and transform it … [Read more...]
How can imagination become creative productivity? How can artists fuse the work of creative theorists to their gifts to help others to innovate? So far both Basadur's Creative Problem Solving Profile and deBono's Six Thinking Hat Theory have provided a structure that is relatively easy to understand, adapt and implement. But with our next … [Read more...]
Written by Randy Woods, October 25th. Appeared in Entrepreneur Magazine online. In the drizzly Pacific Northwest, Andy Fife is a rainmaker for the region's thriving arts community. Through Shunpike, a Seattle-based arts organization, he has helped nurture more than 2,500 creative enterprises across Washington, providing a solid … [Read more...]
Written by Lance Hall, actor, director, creator of Launch Pad Casting Workshop and a participant in The IAE's inaugural class. Since sessions at The Institute for Arts Entrepreneurship started, we’ve been working with a lot of introspective discovery and self-reflection. In the past few weeks, we’ve begun to tie it all together. … [Read more...]
This is pretty interesting news for all of you out there with missions that have no funding sources- yet. All we need to do now is find out which foundations have missions clearly inline with our own... What does the term Mission Investing mean? A growing group of foundations are increasingly thinking about their organizations as … [Read more...]
Written by Rosabeth Moss Kanter Rosabeth is Chair and Director of the Advanced Leadership Initiative of Harvard University, a collaboration across the professional schools to help successful leaders at the top of their professions apply their skills to addressing challenging national and global problems in their next stages of … [Read more...]
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