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<!--Generated by Squarespace Site Server v5.0.0 (http://www.squarespace.com/) on Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:11:26 GMT--><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><title>Creativity Matters</title><subtitle>Creativity Matters</subtitle><id>http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/</id><link rel="alternate" type="application/xhtml+xml" href="http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/atom.xml"/><updated>2008-11-22T00:34:13Z</updated><generator uri="http://www.squarespace.com/" version="Squarespace Site Server v5.0.0 (http://www.squarespace.com/)">Squarespace</generator><entry><title>Is Australian management creative and innovative? - Full report</title><category>creativity</category><category>management</category><category>Innovation</category><category>leadership</category><category>Australia</category><category>Report</category><category>Survey Prsentation</category><id>http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/11/21/is-australian-management-creative-and-innovative-full-report.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/11/21/is-australian-management-creative-and-innovative-full-report.html"/><author><name>Ralph Kerle</name></author><published>2008-11-21T23:57:29Z</published><updated>2008-11-21T23:57:29Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-AU"><![CDATA[The Creative Leadership Forum's full report from their research on 'Is Australian management creative and innovative?' can be downloaded here.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>The Creative Leadership Forum November 2008 Newsletter</title><category>creativity</category><category>Innovation</category><category>Newsletter</category><category>Arts</category><category>Books</category><category>Events</category><category>Workshops</category><category>AGSM Roundtable</category><category>Survey Presentation</category><id>http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/11/21/the-creative-leadership-forum-november-2008-newsletter.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/11/21/the-creative-leadership-forum-november-2008-newsletter.html"/><author><name>Ralph Kerle</name></author><published>2008-11-21T23:05:26Z</published><updated>2008-11-21T23:05:26Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-AU"><![CDATA[View the Creative Leadership Forum November Newsletter here]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Organisational creativity – the top ten enablers</title><category>creativity</category><category>Top ten</category><category>HR</category><category>Enablers</category><category>Innovative</category><category>Encouragement</category><category>Organisational Creativity</category><id>http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/11/20/organisational-creativity-the-top-ten-enablers.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/11/20/organisational-creativity-the-top-ten-enablers.html"/><author><name>Grant Crossley</name></author><published>2008-11-20T21:09:23Z</published><updated>2008-11-20T21:09:23Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-AU"><![CDATA[As part of a masters degree research project Wayne Morris surveyed a range of New Zealand organisations with the intention of identifying the factors that enable organisational creativity. These are his top ten.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Innovation as a Contact Sport - Geoff Garrett, CSIRO Chief Executive</title><category>Innovation</category><category>Crossing Boundaries</category><category>Conversion</category><category>Collaboration</category><category>3 C's</category><category>Sport</category><id>http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/11/19/innovation-as-a-contact-sport-geoff-garrett-csiro-chief-exec.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/11/19/innovation-as-a-contact-sport-geoff-garrett-csiro-chief-exec.html"/><author><name>Grant Crossley</name></author><published>2008-11-19T21:59:53Z</published><updated>2008-11-19T21:59:53Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-AU"><![CDATA[Today I joined the AGA for a luncheon with Geoff Garrett as the key speaker.

 

It was an intimate event with about 30 business leaders there to hear his description of why innovation is a contact sport. Geoff summarised the process down to the three C’s.

 

Though before we get there, it is interesting to note that Geoff who has a distinguished educational background of honours also has a history of sport and in earlier years received a ‘Boxing Blue’ – awarded in alumni fights between Cambridge and Oxford.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Ralph Kerle appointed chairman of AGSM roundtable</title><category>creativity</category><category>Innovation</category><category>leadership</category><category>education</category><category>AGSM</category><category>Roundtable</category><id>http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/11/19/ralph-kerle-appointed-chairman-of-agsm-roundtable.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/11/19/ralph-kerle-appointed-chairman-of-agsm-roundtable.html"/><author><name>Ralph Kerle</name></author><published>2008-11-19T10:53:22Z</published><updated>2008-11-19T10:53:22Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-AU"><![CDATA[AGSM Executive Programs, Australia's leading business school, has appointed Ralph Kerle as Chair of their inaugural Roundtable initiative on Leadership, Creativity and Innovation. 
Building on the research Ralph has produced on 'Is Australian management creative and innovative?' the Roundtable, scheduled for February 2009,  will draw together leaders from Australian business, education, enterprise and government with the express purpose of exploring and scoping the future needs for executive management and development nationally in the area of leadership, creativity and innovation.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>The Future of Storytelling</title><category>storytelling</category><category>narrative</category><category>story</category><id>http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/11/18/the-future-of-storytelling.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/11/18/the-future-of-storytelling.html"/><author><name>Ralph Kerle</name></author><published>2008-11-18T22:03:05Z</published><updated>2008-11-18T22:03:05Z</updated></entry><entry><title>CLF appoints Grant Crossley as CEO</title><category>creativity</category><category>Innovation</category><category>leadership</category><category>Grant Crossley</category><category>Art</category><category>Publishing</category><category>Fast Thinking</category><category>ACP</category><category>Experience</category><id>http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/11/17/clf-appoints-grant-crossley-as-ceo.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/11/17/clf-appoints-grant-crossley-as-ceo.html"/><author><name>Ralph Kerle</name></author><published>2008-11-17T22:40:46Z</published><updated>2008-11-17T22:40:46Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-AU"><![CDATA[The Creative Leadership Forum has appointed Grant Crossley as chief executive officer. Grant brings extensive knowledge in the fields of innovation and creativity along with a significant database of contacts. We look forward to learning from his experience.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>The Nature of Business Model Innovation from Dr Eric Schmidt, Google, Chairman Google</title><id>http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/11/8/the-nature-of-business-model-innovation-from-dr-eric-schmidt.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/11/8/the-nature-of-business-model-innovation-from-dr-eric-schmidt.html"/><author><name>Ralph Kerle</name></author><published>2008-11-08T07:09:49Z</published><updated>2008-11-08T07:09:49Z</updated></entry><entry><title>Launch Speech on The Results of the National Research Survey "Is Australian management creative and innovative?"</title><category>creativity</category><category>executive education</category><category>creative leadership</category><category>management</category><category>Innovation</category><category>leadership</category><category>Australia</category><category>economy</category><category>workplace</category><category>training</category><id>http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/11/6/launch-speech-on-the-results-of-the-national-research-survey.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/11/6/launch-speech-on-the-results-of-the-national-research-survey.html"/><author><name>Ralph Kerle</name></author><published>2008-11-06T06:51:39Z</published><updated>2008-11-06T06:51:39Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-AU"><![CDATA[Here is the full text of the speech I gave at the Annual General Meeting of the Australian Services Rountable in Sydney on November 5 launching the Creative Leadership Forum National Research Report"Is Australian management creative and innovative?"

To-day the word innovation appears almost daily in the media. There are 360 million references to innovation on Google and on the Google Daily RSS feed I receive notice of new books and articles released daily globally on the topic. Every expert offers a different solution! Every job advertisement talks about the applicant having the need to be creative and innovative. It appears this thing called innovation is a common everyday occurrence.

One might be able to talk about it as if it is. In practice, the reality is very different.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>In Search of Creativity</title><category>creativity</category><category>Innovation</category><category>storytelling</category><category>visual explorer</category><id>http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/11/6/in-search-of-creativity.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/11/6/in-search-of-creativity.html"/><author><name>Ralph Kerle</name></author><published>2008-11-06T06:43:15Z</published><updated>2008-11-06T06:43:15Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-AU"><![CDATA[In the Developing Your Creative Leadership Capabilities programme which the Creative Leadership Forum offers, we always commence the day with a group dialogue based around the question "What is the most creative thing you have done in your life and how did it affect you?"

The conversations that evolve out of this question never cease to amaze me, no matter how many times I have conducted this session. Relationships are re-defined by these conversations. People who have worked side by side for decades suddenly discover new things about the person next door they would have never imagined. People begin to see that creativity manifests itself in many guises instead of just the stereotypical view of the creative person as the "arty" type.]]></summary></entry></feed>