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One curious phenomenon is that individual departments or areas that excel and drive success beyond the ranking of above average to the level of cutting edge status become endangered.  It almost seems as though once such success is achieved, it is taken for granted.  One would wonder how a big organization might cut funding or reduce …..

What purpose does it serve anyone to throw away talent?  Yet it happens on a regular basis and it is one of the biggest reasons for loss of prosperity within organizations.  According to an article in Today’s Small Business News, “Getting the Edge in the New People Economy,”
 “Yet, far too many executives today continue to …..

Waiting for the recovery to happen is like sitting in your car waiting for it to start on its own.  Now I don’t know much about cars but I do know that I’m not going anywhere unless I turn the key to start my car!
A quick lesson from my husband about cars explained that the …..

Can you teach creativity?  I am often asked this question.  It is kind of like the question “Can you teach driving?”  Most of us have the innate abilities to drive a car but that doesn’t mean we can do so skillfully or safely.  If left to our own devices, we would eventually learn how to …..

In a new book, From Workplace to Playspace, Pamela Meyer reports on a study by Patrick Kulesa involving 664,000 employees worldwide.  The results of the study show  there is  a direct correlation between productive play and engagement that leads to commitment.  If organizations create a ‘space’ where employees can be engaged in playing out possibilities, …..

There is a 52% gap in operating income between high engagement and low engagement organizations

My 20 years as an innovation/creativity consultant and as a director of career services departments  in higher education  have taught me a lot about leadership. The reality is that we need different kinds of leaders for different types of problems.

How many businesses are looking for the opportunity in the midst of economic crisis? Everywhere I go I am hearing how bad the economy is and how people just need to hunker down and wait it out. That decision might just be the death of a once thriving business.

Individual Creativity is an essential life skill that all of us possess.  Many don’t see themselves as creative because society has defined creativity in terms of art, music, science and not as a gift that each of us receives at birth.  The confusion comes in that we are all different, with varying amounts of creativity, …..

How often do you get a creative urge to express yourself in some way that you intend to carry out, but then get distracted by some other task that you need to get done?  It is so easy to put aside our creative needs because we see them as luxuries…when I have time to relax …..