Exploring Your Creative Genius: Episode 110
It was wonderful talking with Charlie Grantham on Sunday’s show.
A man of many interests, his current focus is on the Future of Work. He made so many important and useful observations and let me highlight a couple for you here.
I loved his thinking about the vital importance of Creative Leadership, making the point that we need to work on ourselves, build our own creativity and resilience and collaborative abilities; we need to become the individual the organization needs before we attempt to lead it.
And his urging that education must attend to the Head, Heart, and Hand is spot on.
I had been familiar with that 3 H Triad through the Emerson Waldorf School that my daughters attended. This overlaps with Charlie’s thinking and adds more language for you to consider.
- Head/Thinking: Waldorf nurtures critical and creative thinking through an arts-integrated, experiential curriculum. Academics are introduced developmentally, when children are ready for it.
- Heart/Feeling: Emotional intelligence and social skills are fostered through storytelling, music, and collaborative activities. Children develop empathy and moral awareness.
- Hand/Willing: Practical skills—such as handwork, gardening, woodworking, and metal smithing—are central, encouraging resilience, fine motor development, and a connection to the physical world.
After listening to Charlie’s show, here are some additional resources to learn more about his work.
This is his website where you can review his past blogs and search for specific topics
Charlies has lots of great stuff in his Substack columns, the best source of current musings. It has his six column series on Leadership in the 21st Century.
He referred to this book, coming out of a live in-person workshop he participated in.
And don’t forget: When you stare at Green for 30 seconds you have a 25% improvement in your creative performances.
“Exploring Your Creative Genius” takes an expansive view on what it means to be creative and entrepreneurial in an ongoing conversation led by Carl Nordgren — entrepreneur, novelist, and lifelong student with decades of experience growing his own creative capacity and assisting others to do the same in exciting new ways!
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