By Alain Prud’homme The word paradigm in the scientific or design professions is used to indicate a pattern, model, outstandingly clear or typical example or archetype. These paradigms are the conceptual frameworks that provide a unified perspective over a range of experiences. Since students mainly learn from and are mentored by others who learned the [...]

Creativity…”Originality, Imaginative thinking” You’ve no doubt heard about “thinking outside the box”. Very often, business creativity is referred to as thinking outside the box. You can get locked in to your day-to-day operational thinking “inside the box”, and forget totally about the requirements of the need for business creativity. It is very easy to lose [...]

By Michael Angier In order to compete effectively, we must look for new and better ways to accomplish our mission. We must find creative methods to delight our customers. And we must find innovative strategies for getting more done with fewer resources. With things changing as rapidly as they are, doing things the old way [...]

By AnnA Rushton Have you heard of K.I.S.S? It is much used in business and particularly in training, and it stands for Keep It Simple Stupid. Now I agree with keeping it simple in principle, but calling me stupid is not going to help tackle procrastination. I prefer a much kinder, and more effective way [...]

Valery is an Artist Mindset Mentor and Coach who helps creative people get out of their own way so that they can overcome the struggles that often come with the life of artists of every kind. Clients learn how to express their full potential to create more passionately, profoundly, productively & profitably. Just as learning [...]

Consider this… What if instead of the compact and featherweight mobile phone that you use today, you had to carry around one of those huge phones prevalent in the early 1990′s? You can heave a sigh of relief that it was just a thought; courtesy of the innovators who spent many years of their lives, [...]