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Here are some of the sites that I regularly visit and have found useful. Hope you find them equally useful.


www.jimcollins.com This is one of my favourite sites. Jim Collins is a student and teacher of enduring great companies -- how they grow, how they attain superior performance, and how good companies can become great. Not just focussed on business but the personal as well.
www.leadershipnow.com Great source of free articles and leadership resources.
www.pib.net Promoting leadership and philosophy in business utilising the Koestenbaum Leadership Diamond. A site that causes you to think. Regular newsletter.
www.teachmeteamwork.com Tom Heck's site with everything you could ever want to know about team building. Lots of free stuff including video snippets of team building activities. If you want to liven up your team building check this site out.
www.pfdf.org Home of the Leader to Leader Institute, the Drucker Foundation, the Thought Leaders Forum and heaps of great articles on all aspects of leadership.
hbswk.hbs.edu/ The Harvard Business School's Working Knowledge web site has long been recognized as a good resource for good practical business fare. Sign up for their newsletter - its good and meaty!
www.21learn.org The 21st Century Learning Initiative's essential purpose is to facilitate the emergence of new approaches to learning that draw upon a range of insights into the human brain, the functioning of human societies, and learning as a community-wide activity. John Abbott believes this will release human potential in ways that nurture and form local democratic communities worldwide, and will help reclaim and sustain a world supportive of human endeavour.
www.habits-of-mind.net A Habit of Mind is knowing how to behave intelligently when you DON'T know the answer. This site's mission is to build an international network of people in schools, homes and businesses that are dedicated to sharing the vision of the Habits of Mind as a foundation for building thought-full learning communities.
www.fastcompany.com Covers the new economy and workplace. Offers up-to-the-minute commentary on what organisations at the cutting edge are doing and how they are doing it. Articles range over leading, learning and creating.
www.tompeters.com Love him or hate him he has an opinion most things! Reinventing the world of work. Great site.
www.leading-learning.co.nz A New Zealand based site run by my friend and colleague Bruce Hammonds. A site that challenges the existing practices of education in New Zealand [and world -wide for that matter] and offers constructive suggestions for change. Puts the creative teacher back into teaching!!
www.danpink.com Daniels book, A Whole New Mind, had quite an impact on me. His site supports the book and has some interesting blogs. His book argues that the era of "left brain" dominance, and the Information Age that it engendered, are giving way to a new world in which "right brain' qualities - inventiveness, meaning, empathy - predominate.
hbswk.hbs.edu Harvard Business School has a long tradition of practice-oriented research and teaching that has a profound and far-reaching impact on business and management education world wide. HBS Working Knowledge is a forum for innovation in business practice, offering readers a first look at cutting-edge thinking and the opportunity to both influence and use these concepts before they enter mainstream management practice. Great newsletter.
www.amcreativityassoc.org For more than a decade, the American Association of Creativity has been a primary resource for learning and applying creativity, innovation, problem-solving, and ideation theory, tools, and techniques. The association offers a global network of creative professionals in disciplines ranging from business and industry to education and the arts. You need to be a member to get the best from this site.
www.thebigidea.co.nz For the artists among you. A great site with a regular newsletter with up to date stuff on what's happening in the arts in New Zealand. I always look forward to my newsletter!
www.robertfritz.com Peter Senge (author of The Fifth Discipline) says that Robert Fritz '- is without a doubt one of the most original thinkers today on the creative process in business, the arts, science, and life in general. His work has deeply impacted my life and the lives of many of my colleagues.' Worth checking out.
His books are good!
www.creativityatwork.com The team at 'creativityatwork' work at the intersection of art, business, design and science with a focus on leadership development, creativity, collaboration, and cultivating environments that foster innovation. Great to see the arts working in the business arena.
virtual.tart.co.nz Art from my home province - Taranaki, New Zealand - and further afield. Check it out if you are in the market for great art!!
www.jpb.com With innovation as its focus this site promotes an idea management software but has a great library of articles and a very informative e-zine. Report 103 is a twice monthly e-Journal on creativity, imagination, ideas and innovation in business. It provides you with tips, insights, observations and research on creativity and innovation. Worth getting.
www.innovationtools.com Innovation Tools is a great source for articles, tools and resources on business innovation, creativity and brainstorming. Also an e-journal worth signing up for!
www.cre8ting.com Robert Alan Black Ph.D. has been promoting Creative Thinking, Leadership, Teamwork and Communication in the Workplace for over 20 years. His site is filled with his years of experience and lots of goodies.
www.tlc.ac.nz Home of the Learning Connexion. The business of The Learning Connexion is to help people achieve sustainable art and creativity. They teach creativity. Their vehicle for doing so is art. In achieving this they have created a unique approach which extends beyond the traditional limitations of the "fine arts", whilst still giving our students a thorough grounding across a wide range of disciplines.


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