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A selection of articles on topical and emergent themes in creative management and strategy innovation.

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News and articles about management creativity, CMC and related products and services

tapping creativity
This article discusses the nature of creativity and enquiry and why people are sometimes less creative than they need to be. It argues the work of leaders is to use 'serious play' to release the spirit of creativity in the culture of their organisations.

serious play
What is serious play and why does it help with strategy? This article, originally published in Business Executive Magazine, shines a little light on processes that help leadership teams meet modern organisational challenges.

bringing ideas to life
Places and spaces can live. Ideas can live. Organisations can live. However, the difference seems to need people to have a particular kind of intention.

resilience - and how to survive in tough times
In his article for the Banff centre’s Leadership Compass magazine John Varney relates nine factors that research suggests enable humans to survive in emergencies, to the organisation

accessing the power of vision
In his article for the Banff centre’s Leadership Compass magazine John Varney shares his perception of a vision being a vital means of raising aspirations and aligning energies with the common intent, enabling people to bring their endeavour to life.

REFLECT! the art of purposeful non-thinking
John Varney advocates finding time to stop and think and offers a useful metaphor of how we take an illusion for reality, how we can intuit causal patterns and how, with intention, we can gain insight.

authentic leadership
To lead is to go first and bring others along. Authentic leadership, it is argued, is exhibited in our behaviour

strategy as fiction
Dare we believe in what we dare to imagine? That is a question that is answered through the flowing pattern of relationships we tend to refer to as leadership or teamwork.