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In my two last blog postings on Todd Henry’s The Accidental Creative, I visited several of Henry’s insights on how organizational tensions and negative influences (of “assassin”-like factors like dissonance, fear and unrealistic expectations) can impair the creativity of your association. But in today’s final installment, we look at positive and constructive strategies that Henry recommends, to stoke our organizations’ creative fires. He says that our default strategy of “working harder and staring more intently at the problem to achieve better results, is like trying to control the weather by staring at the clouds.” What’s called for is a change in strategy that could benefit all of our organizations. Continue reading “How to Tap into your Creative Energy (Part Three)”

In my last post on Todd Henry’s The Accidental Creative, I introduced Henry’s argument that time, rhythm and process are unavoidable components of creativity that we have to nurture if we`re going to be creative, and to create quickly. In addition to those three factors, Todd Henry says that there are three “assassins” that threaten our creative processes and, if they dominate, yield “rationalization” and “mediocrity:” Continue reading “How to Tap into your Creative Energy (Part Two)”

In The Accidental Creative: How to be Brilliant at a Moment’s Notice (New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2011), Business Consultant, Advisor and Creator Todd Henry (CEO of “Accidental Creative”) talks about how communication, marketing and business types can nurture creativity in our daily lives. Do you struggle in your organization to find and tap into your creative vein? In this blog posting, the first of a three-part series, we’ll look at a few of Henry’s arguments on how to leverage creativity in your professional organization. Continue reading “How to Tap into your Creative Energy (Part One)”