What You Can Do Today to Encourage Your Flourishing Creative Enterprise
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
For CEOs, creativity is now the most important leadership quality for success in business, outweighing even integrity and global thinking, according to a new study by IBM. The study is the largest known sample of one-on-one CEO interviews, with over 1500 corporate heads and public sector leaders across 60 nations and 33 industries polled on what drives them in managing their companies in today's world. Please go to http://www.creativityunwrapped.com/cu_news.asp to find out more.
Monday, May 17, 2010
We are hosting a party!
Please go to http://www.creativityunwrapped.com/ to get your invitation to the party Alla and I are throwing on June 6 at her beautiful home in the Hollywood Hills. There will be food and fun and games and a beautiful view and a chance to be with your fellow artists and engtrepreneurs. We have been planning this for weeks, and it really a way to experience the Creativity Unwrapped path live and first hand. We will be talking about Creativity Unwrapped summer camp for grown ups, and maybe you will be inspired. No hard sell, of course -- you know us. Just a good time. Please come!
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Cantori Domino, the wonderful group I sing with, has a beautiful concert coming up May 30, 2010. We are singing Eric Whitacre's Lux Aurumque, in addition to the Faure Requiem, and A Bach Cantata. Please check out this link to a wonderful YouTube of people all over the world singing Lux Aurumque into their webcam to create a virtual choir. They never sang together. Ansd check out Eric Whitacre -- a brilliant and very popular composer! You will love the concert, and the video. Enjoy!
Sunday, May 02, 2010
I have just finished Ken Auleta's wonderful article in the 4/26/2010 issue of the New Yorker about the continuing revolution in the business of getting an author's words into the hands (already a wrong word?) of her audience.
Harvard Magazine has an article in their May/June 2010 issue about the future of libraries. This article on their web site leads to their Open Collections Program and a discussion of the history of reading. I love the idea of a history of reading, to try to comprehend the psychology of the written/read word. Many brilliant business minds are exploring this topic, pondering the impact of reading on all the senses.The introduction of the iPAD and the hefty star-quality competitive display between Steve Jobs at Apple and Jeff Bezos at Amazon does not dig deep into what motivates the human reader -- what does the written word mean? Why did we evolve out of oral tradition (which the Wiki world is related to) and the archival world of words etched in stone or scratched on animal hide (did you know that is what parchment is? I learned that from reading People of the Book, a great novel available at http://www.amazon.com/. )
Did you know, also, that the physical production of books in the early part of the twentieth centure, at least, was done by women. Some of the first factory jobs for females were book-binding because -- guess what -- we could sew. I learned this from following Harvard's links to photographs of women working -- a huge and gorgeous digital archive from Harvard's library collections (Baker Library).
Digital books mean books -- like the front page of the newspaper in Harry Potter stories -- can have movement, urgency, the ability to change. Are books games? Movies? constantly changing news media? or artifacts of moments of time and sectors of an author's psyche that deserve to be Widener-ized (Widener is the name of Harvard's main library) in archival eVaults (the Google Books Project)? A beautiful conversation to have, and the history of reading is essential to the subject. Thank you Harvard for providing this vehicle. And thanks Steve and Jeff for giving it muscle.
Harvard Magazine has an article in their May/June 2010 issue about the future of libraries. This article on their web site leads to their Open Collections Program and a discussion of the history of reading. I love the idea of a history of reading, to try to comprehend the psychology of the written/read word. Many brilliant business minds are exploring this topic, pondering the impact of reading on all the senses.The introduction of the iPAD and the hefty star-quality competitive display between Steve Jobs at Apple and Jeff Bezos at Amazon does not dig deep into what motivates the human reader -- what does the written word mean? Why did we evolve out of oral tradition (which the Wiki world is related to) and the archival world of words etched in stone or scratched on animal hide (did you know that is what parchment is? I learned that from reading People of the Book, a great novel available at http://www.amazon.com/. )
Did you know, also, that the physical production of books in the early part of the twentieth centure, at least, was done by women. Some of the first factory jobs for females were book-binding because -- guess what -- we could sew. I learned this from following Harvard's links to photographs of women working -- a huge and gorgeous digital archive from Harvard's library collections (Baker Library).
Digital books mean books -- like the front page of the newspaper in Harry Potter stories -- can have movement, urgency, the ability to change. Are books games? Movies? constantly changing news media? or artifacts of moments of time and sectors of an author's psyche that deserve to be Widener-ized (Widener is the name of Harvard's main library) in archival eVaults (the Google Books Project)? A beautiful conversation to have, and the history of reading is essential to the subject. Thank you Harvard for providing this vehicle. And thanks Steve and Jeff for giving it muscle.
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