Bronze sculpture of Daedalus Seth Godin says anyone can be an artist. Without even becoming an artist: Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And …
Drive: An Interview with Daniel Pink
Daniel Pink has been one of the presiding spirits of Lateral Action from day one. Specifically, his book A Whole New Mind provided inspiration for the very first article we published - Innovate or …
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Dan Pink on Why Rewards Don’t Work
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrkrvAUbU9Y Business is rewarding itself to death, according to Dan Pink. He's not just talking about 'fat cat' pay and bonuses. He's talking about something much …
Does Commercial Success = Creative Sell-Out?
One of the most eye-opening experiences of my life took place one afternoon in Amsterdam, in the summer of 1990. A hundred years after the death of Vincent van Gogh, his paintings had been gathered …
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Don’t Assume You’re Normal: What You Can Learn from Other Creative Cultures
Photo by fdecomiteIn his book The Post-American World Fareed Zakaria argues that there have been 'three tectonic power shifts over the last five hundred years'. Each of these shifts profoundly …
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What Family Guy Can Teach You About the
Business of Creativity
Family Guy. It’s crude, rude, and, according to its detractors… badly drawn. But the show has a rabid fan base that’s brought it back from the dead not once, but twice. And it’s the basis of a $2 …
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The Rise of the Creative Economy
In the last post we looked at the converging economic forces that make creativity a hot property in the 21st century. Mature economies such as the US, Europe, and Japan, which previously shifted from …
Innovate or Die: Why Creativity Is Economic Priority Number One
Why is it that creativity and individuality, which used to be anathema to the corporate world, are now in great demand? Did all those hard-nosed business people suddenly decide there was more to life …
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