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<!--Generated by Squarespace Site Server v5.0.0 (http://www.squarespace.com/) on Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:56:08 GMT--><rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:rss="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:admin="http://webns.net/mvcb/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:cc="http://web.resource.org/cc/"><rss:channel rdf:about="http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/"><rss:title>Creativity Matters</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/</rss:link><rss:description>Creativity, Leadership, Innovation, Execuitve Education, Management, Business, Leadership</rss:description><dc:language>en-AU</dc:language><dc:date>2008-09-08T18:56:08Z</dc:date><admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://www.squarespace.com/">Squarespace Site Server v5.0.0 (http://www.squarespace.com/)</admin:generatorAgent><rss:items><rdf:Seq><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/9/7/some-thoughts-on-the-use-of-knowledge-in-society.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/8/13/corporate-storytellers-the-rise-of-the-employee-author-or-ho.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/8/10/the-work-of-change-this.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/8/9/creative-leadership-and-the-water-cube-at-the-beijing-olympi.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/8/7/announcing-the-bnet-australia-and-creative-leadership-forum.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/7/12/the-challenge-to-the-ethnosphere-as-opposed-to-the-biosphere.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/6/30/the-creative-capitalism-dialogue-continues.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/6/28/why-classical-music-shows-us-how-to-innovate.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/6/23/how-to-make-money-by-givingcreatively.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/6/10/executive-leadership-programmes-in-creative-leadership-a-fir.html"/></rdf:Seq></rss:items></rss:channel><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/9/7/some-thoughts-on-the-use-of-knowledge-in-society.html"><rss:title>Some Thoughts On The Use of Knowledge in Society</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/9/7/some-thoughts-on-the-use-of-knowledge-in-society.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Ralph Kerle</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-09-07T03:43:14Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/8/13/corporate-storytellers-the-rise-of-the-employee-author-or-ho.html"><rss:title>Corporate StoryTellers - The Rise of the Employee Author or How To Gain Real Insights about Companies.</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/8/13/corporate-storytellers-the-rise-of-the-employee-author-or-ho.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Ralph Kerle</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-08-13T06:59:03Z</dc:date><dc:subject>corporate storytelling</dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[A fascinating email turned up in my In-Box the other day asking me to explore JobVent.

On first inspection, I thought this was some form of joke and I wondered how a site of this nature could exist without being threatened with legal action. However on further inspection, this site is a wonderful expression of Web 2.0 democracy and the power of corporate story telling. The fascination lies in the ordinariness of an employee's stories about work practices and how those work practices influenced them and their every day lives.

Employees convey their impressions authentically. There is no spin here. No positioning, no editing, what you read is the unspoken being revealed.

Contributors voluntarily offer opinions about the companies they have worked for, their employer and fellow workers and are asked to rate their organization via a simple poll based on pay, respect, benefits, job security, work/life balance, career potential/growth, location, co-worker competence and work environment.

Here is a comment by a former employee of Perform Air Internation]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/8/10/the-work-of-change-this.html"><rss:title>The Work of Change This</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/8/10/the-work-of-change-this.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Ralph Kerle</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-08-10T09:57:34Z</dc:date><dc:subject>creative leadership Web 2.0 blogs</dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[Seth Godin, marketing guru and writer of the supposedly Number 1 ranked business blog on the web had the original idea for Change This. If you look at his site, you will be overcome by the mundanity and self promotion. Hell, here is another self absorbed obsessively driven over achiever. I try not to be cynical, however I am highly suspicious of books with titles like Small is the New Big, All Marketers are Liars, Free Prize Inside, Survival is Not Enough. So I was shocked to find the idea for Change This was his.

Change This is not a blog in the sense of the concept. This site actually offers more than some pithy comments and links. Change This offers erudite and often controversial manifestos written by some of the world's leading thinkers, offered for free. All you have to do is subscribe at the site.

The thinking behind Change This]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/8/9/creative-leadership-and-the-water-cube-at-the-beijing-olympi.html"><rss:title>Creative Leadership and the Water Cube at the Beijing Olympics</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/8/9/creative-leadership-and-the-water-cube-at-the-beijing-olympi.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Ralph Kerle</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-08-09T11:10:06Z</dc:date><dc:subject>creative leadership engineeering management business</dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[I don't ever want to hear another engineer say I am not creative after attending a presentation on innovation and creativity by Tristan Carfrae, Senior Fellow at Arup, the designers and structural engineers in the consortium who constructed the Water Cube for the Olympic Aquatic Centre at the Beijing Olympics.

What was particularly interesting about Carfrae's presentation was his proposition innovation in the building industry is very difficult and when you look at the simple physics of his proposition, he has a point.

Every building is a prototype that mustn't fail. In structural engineering, you just cannot fail or the building will fall down. Engineering is calculable but it is not the calculations which fail. It is what the engineer chooses to calculate that will bring about the failure and in this sense, engineers' thinking can be compared to the way artists work.]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/8/7/announcing-the-bnet-australia-and-creative-leadership-forum.html"><rss:title>Announcing the BNET Australia and Creative Leadership Forum Media Content Partnership.</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/8/7/announcing-the-bnet-australia-and-creative-leadership-forum.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Ralph Kerle</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-08-07T11:07:54Z</dc:date><dc:subject>creativity learning executive education professional development</dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[The Creative Leadership Forum is delighted to announce it has signed an agreement with BNET Australia (www.bnet.com), a website focused on supporting Australia's 4.5 million managers's leading on-line daily management and business journal to become a major content provider in the area of creative leadership, creativity and innovation.

Concurrently, the Creative Leadership Forum is also pleased to announce a new series of workshops entitled Moments of Learning to align itself with BNET Australia's objective of providing action-oriented intelligence for managerial professionals that's smart, useful, and always right at your fingertips

The Creative Leadership Forum Moments are 2 hour monthly programmes designed as short introductory learning experiences offering]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/7/12/the-challenge-to-the-ethnosphere-as-opposed-to-the-biosphere.html"><rss:title>The Challenge to the Ethnosphere as Opposed to the Biosphere</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/7/12/the-challenge-to-the-ethnosphere-as-opposed-to-the-biosphere.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Ralph Kerle</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-07-12T10:37:21Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/6/30/the-creative-capitalism-dialogue-continues.html"><rss:title>The Creative Capitalism Dialogue Continues</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/6/30/the-creative-capitalism-dialogue-continues.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Ralph Kerle</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-06-30T10:37:35Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[One of the more interesting conversations that occurred at Davos 2008 was the conversations between Bill Gates and Mahmood Younis in which Gates first mentioned "Creative Capitalism"  Michael Kinsley, Editor-at-Large of the Guardian of London has taken up the theme and started an on-line book experiment under the title of Creative Capitalism: a conversation. What attracted me to this blog was the transcript of a luncheon conversation between Warren Buffett and Bill Gates that Kinsley put on for them. In it Gates flounders around trying to describe "creative capitalism." The transcript of the entire luncheon is fascinating reading as well as the comments the blog attracted. I will be following this thread as it really takes the idea of capitalism into the realm of social inclusion - an directional movement from the market rules coterie.

Here is Gates opening statement....]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/6/28/why-classical-music-shows-us-how-to-innovate.html"><rss:title>Why Classical Music Shows Us How To Innovate</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/6/28/why-classical-music-shows-us-how-to-innovate.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Ralph Kerle</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-06-28T04:24:10Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/6/23/how-to-make-money-by-givingcreatively.html"><rss:title>How To Make Money By Giving..Creatively!!</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/6/23/how-to-make-money-by-givingcreatively.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Ralph Kerle</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-06-23T03:12:06Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[The Creative Leadership Forum is currently conducting research to gauge reactions to our new series of workshops. When I talk to organisations I am trying to ascertain whether they embody creative leadership and creative and innovative thinking. 9 times out of 10, no I should say, always, there is general agreement that an organization should be creative and innovative. The problem seems to be though how the organization can actually implement and live those concepts. Contemporary IT and its emphasis on measurement of everything, the ever pervasive risk managers and the importance of order in the system, in other words, bureaucracy have made creativity and innovation something organisations can speak about and in most cases that is how far it goes. So are there examples of organisations who live the ideals of creative leadership, creativity and innovation 100% of the time and, if so, how do they operate?]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/6/10/executive-leadership-programmes-in-creative-leadership-a-fir.html"><rss:title>Executive Leadership Programmes in Creative Leadership - A First in Australia</rss:title><rss:link>http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2008/6/10/executive-leadership-programmes-in-creative-leadership-a-fir.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Ralph Kerle</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-06-10T01:48:16Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[The Creative Leadership Forum takes pleasure in announcing the first series of executive training programmes to be rolled out nationally commencing July 2008.

These unique programmes have been shaped by the results of the recent major national survey "Is Australian management creative and innovative?"conducted by the Creative Leadership Forum in association with Australian top 500 companies and relevant industry associations.


The survey revealed that over 81% of Australians had no training in creative leadership, creativity and innovation. The common theme amongst senior management participants in the survey was the urgent need to develop senior executives and employees skills and capabilities in these areas so organisations can better face the challenges of emerging global business opportunities and competition.

Programme content focuses on the practice and application of creativity and innovation and the role of the leader in facilitating and driving that practice to produce value for organizations. All programmes have certification from the University of Southern Maine, USA through their Leadership and Organizational Development programme at a post graduate Masters level.]]></content:encoded></rss:item></rdf:RDF>