3-year-old Jonathan conducting to the 4th movement of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony. The most joyous, unbridled creativity I’ve ever seen. I wonder: Will colleges start demanding YouTube proof of early artistic talent in their admissions applications?
How great that Jonathan will be able to watch this when he’s a teenager, wondering if any of the glowing things his parents said about him were ever true… Sometimes, Moms are not exaggerating when they said their kids are brilliant. Enjoy.
Link: Make Your Readers Love You: 5 Lessons from Pixar
This post from Copyblogger describes five clever “rules” derived from Pixar for “making readers love you.” I think they’re rock-solid recommendations for managers, bloggers, writers, and commercial artists of all kinds:
1. Be consistent and build trust
2. Take the time to do things right
3. Tell a story that connects
4. Know yourself, your product, and your team
5. Now, make it your own
Posted in Inspiration
Tagged blogging, creativity, management, pixar, rules, writing
I am a writer, teacher, researcher, teamworker and ideawoman. I believe in observation, collaboration, and the open-minded following of ones' heart and nose.
I help teams and companies combine creativity with insights about human behavior to design elegant solutions to real problems, and develop their capacity to create powerful products and services in less time with fewer resources.
I am an Asst Professor at the London School of Economics. I teach in the Department of Management and do cutting-edge research on creativity, design, and innovation.
I grew up acting in Los Angeles, then moved to the San Francisco Bay area where I worked in Marketing and fed my love of technology. I have a PhD in Organizational Behavior from the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.
{Non-Random & Beautiful Chaos}Images featured in blog posts and on Flickr are the author's original work unless otherwise stated. Portraits of the author on this domain taken by Roy Rosenthal.
