"Creativity in Management"

much of our ‘Tortoise Mind’ work takes place in an atmosphere of uncertainty and gentle confusion.

Sir Ken Robinson, who has made the study of creativity in schools his life’s work, has observed that instead of fuelling creativity through play, schools can actually kill it: “We have sold ourselves into a fast-food model of education, and it’s impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies…. Imagin

This insight helped me to view my fallow periods as preparatory to the fertile ones, and therefore as an inseparable part of the whole creative process.

When you feel the need to get serious or work much harder, consider doing the following: Take a couple of minutes to argue for why you can’t have what you really want. Make up a country song title that describes your current issue and sing a line. Have a fifteen-second temper tantrum. Be sure to include your whole body and make noise. For thirty se