
MUSINGS & NEWS

How to thrive as a creative in a corporate world that pays lip service to innovation
Creativity is one of those words that has a resurgence every few years in the corporate world, and even when it’s not in vogue, the use of the word creativity in the workplace is accepted as a norm.
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Beyond its use as a recruitment tool, or to plan annual team days or Christmas parties, creativity as an everyday mechanism often seems to be to justify a colleague wearing coloured rimmed glasses or a print shirt.
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If we assume that creativity is a muscle that we are all born with that some of us flex a little more than others at different points in the lives, what does it mean for a person who prioritises creativity to thrive within an environment that at best pays lip service to it? And more importantly, how can you thrive?

How Kindness and Emphathy Transform the Toughest Workplace Challenges
I have built a career from managing teams and situations that are in the eye of the storm. From leading high-profile negotiations, managing chronic complex people matters, or applying systems-based order onto a change crisis, my professional career has been what others steer clear from.
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What's the secret to my job? People are fundamentally good.
This antithesis with how one expects such matters to unfold and how they actually do, was a source of LightWorkers, in which things are not always how they appear.
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