Co-Pilots

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"Doing well by doing good," is one of those catchphrases we've all heard about 1,000 times too often. But it's true that helping the community around you (or even far away) brings real benefits to your business that go way beyond the PR boost it can provide.

If we talk about company culture, are there more colours than black, white and a lot of grey?

Read 10 of the trends that will affect us in 2014 acoording to Dan Schawbel. He explains them on his blog on Forbes. Dan Schawbel is a workplace expert, keynote speaker and the New York Times bestselling author of Promote Yourself.

In augustus en september 2013 heeft Convertibles zijn pilot workshoptraject doorlopen bij Stichting Klein Haarlem. Samen met de gebruikers (flexers) van de Klein Haarlem flexruimte in gebouw de Greiner in Haarlem is een co-creatief traject doorlopen om het interieur van de flexruimte te transformeren naar de wensen en behoeftes van de flexers.

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You might think of creativity as something clever marketers or copywriters whip out when they need to come up with a compelling ad, or a personal trait only certain people, such as successful serial entrepreneurs or brilliant improv actors, naturally possess. But according to Keith Sawyer, research psychologist and author of "Zig Zag: The Surprising Path to Greater Creativity," everyone can be more creative just by taking eight incremental steps, but not necessarily in linear order. His path to creativity is more back and forth, a process in which the steps to greater imagination and originality build on and feed off each other.

The Internet of Everything is reshaping every aspect of our lives—including how and where we work. Think back to the 1950s, when the telephone was the only connected device in the typical office, and collaboration happened only when coworkers physically walked to a conference room for a face-to-face meeting.

Who thinks creativity blossoms in an environment where mistakes are banned? Not me, not you. Not anyone who wants to generate a steady flow of ideas in work and life. “A mistake isn’t a failure,” says Ricardo Crespo, global creative chief at 20th Century Fox. “It’s a masked innovation, waiting to be revealed.” Most folks recognize the value of mistakes in an innovative workplace. But there’s a catch--if thoughtless mistakes are allowed to spread like weeds, they’ll soon choke out talents and funds necessary for workable solutions. Limitless mistakes simply aren’t sustainable in effective organizations.

Imagine there was something you could add to your car’s engine, so that after driving a hundred miles, you’d end up with more gas in the tank than you started with. Wouldn’t you use it? OK, that product doesn’t exist, and maybe never will. But there is something you can give your team that will have the same effect: interesting work.

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The way we work is shifting. We see that in subtle ways and other times in not so subtle ways. Even traditional companies like Deloitte are investing in people development, realizing that it is the best resource they have to stay ahead of the curve. Those with a real competitive advantage intuitively understand innovation and creativity as essential to meeting market demands and crucial in facing our collective sustainability challenges. The future of work as we know it is shifting from an outdated directive approach toward collaborative frameworks that inspire us to engage in new and different ways with our work and with each other.

29 WAYS TO STAY CREATIVE (by TO-FU)

So 10 years in, what’s the current thinking? What new big idea now dominates the agenda and concerns of the Forum participants? And where do they think this field is going?

Design Process: The Best Thing You Can Do is Listen- via @Good

An inspiring TED-talk by Stephanie Akkaoui Hughes at TEDxBelfastWomen. `Designing our future is everyone´s responsability´