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Creativity
How Interruptions Can Make You More Creative
Why You Need to Be Disorganised to Be Creative
What Writer’s Block and Stage Fright Have In Common
Should Artists Give the Audience What They Want?
What Amadeus Shows Us About Creativity
‘Too Many Notes’ – How Not to Give Feedback on Creative Work
5 Tips for Giving Feedback on Creative Work
What Seamus Heaney Taught Me About Giving Feedback
6 Tips for Dealing with Feedback on Your Creative Work
What’s the Difference Between Incubation and Procrastination?
Three Ways to Assess Your Own Creative Work
Getting in Touch with Creativity – Roger von Oech’s Ball of Whacks
Brian Eno – 77 Million Paintings
Creative Synaesthesia – If You See What I’m Saying
The Thinkubator and Other Creative Envioronments
The Ingenious Thomas Heatherwick
10 Tips for Overcoming Writer’s Block
3 Steps to Realising Creativity
Creativity Beyond the Creatives
Time Management for Creative People
A guest series for Business of Design Online, released as a free e-book.
1. Why You Need to Be Organised to Be Creative
2. Prioritise Work that Is ‘Important But Not Urgent’
3. Ring-fence Your Most Creative Time
4. Avoid the ‘Sisyphus Effect’ of Endless To-do Lists
5. Get Things Done by Putting Them Off Till Tomorrow
Time Management for Creative People – Free E-book
Coaching and Managing Creativity
An Introduction to Business Coaching
Coaching Is Not Training, Mentoring or Counselling
The External Coach or Coaching Consultant
How Coaching Creates Creative Flow
The Business Impact of Coaching
Why Coaching Matters to Creative Companies
Recommended Business Coaching Books
Interview Podcasts
Tina Brazil, People Director, Profero
David Amor, Creative Director, Relentless Software
Mark Earls, Advertising Contrarian
Matt Taylor, Director, Fat Beehive
Terry Childs, Creative Director, Silver Chair
Jill Fear, CPD Manager, The Institute of Practitioners in Advertising
Sian Prime, NESTA Creative Pioneer Programme
Ben Demiri, Brand Manager, SIX Showroom
Richard Scott, Surface Architects
Antonio Gould, Consultant, and Sara Harris, Screen Media Lab
Chris Grant, Consultant, 14A Conversations
Greg Orme, Chief Executive, Centre for Creative Business
Neil Youngson, Technical Director, Cabinet UK
David Roberts, Senior Project Manager, Creative Launchpad
Chris Hirst, Managing Director, Grey London
Russell Davies, Open Intelligence Agency
Chris Arnold, Creative Director, Feel
Ruth Kenley-Letts, Film Producer
Mick Rigby, Managing Director, Monkey Communications
Interviews with Me
Antonio Gould Interviews Me for Channel 4’s 4Cast Series
Chris Ritke Interviews Me at 49Sparks.com
Emotional Intelligence
3 Reasons Why New Year’s Resolutions Fail
6 Tips for Keeping Your New Year’s Resolution
5 Reasons Why Enthusiasm Is Better than Confidence
How to Maintain Your Enthusiasm When Things Get Tough
7 Ways to Stop Worrying When You’re Under Pressure
Are You a Right-Brain or a Left-Brain Person?
The Enneagram
A guest series for Successful Blog, released as a free e-book