Archive for the ‘Creative Techniques’ Category

Myers Briggs, personality type, and navigation

Monday, September 4th, 2006

For the Sagas Production Masterclass at the Munich Film School this week, I’ve been doing some research for a presentation on ‘personality type’ in a work context: Myers Briggs, Belbin, Galen and so on. I think you have to treat the results of any one of these analyses with a ...

The Act of Creation

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

A post on Goodie Bag TV about James Young's 'A Technique for Producing Ideas' reminded me of Arthur Koestler's largely forgotten book: 'The Act of Creation'. Koestler became deeply unfashionable on revelations after his death about his behaviour to women and his work tends to be neglected as a result. ...

Open Space

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

Came across 'Open Space Technology' as a result of meeting Steve Moore of Policy Unplugged who is working on an InSync event we're doing about the Olympics. He was persuasive enough about it as an approach to structuring meetings that I ordered Harrison Owen's book on how to use it. First ...