ICD - International Creative Development

Very happy to be launching a new podcast series all about creativity and the creative industries with my two colleagues Howard Ross-Simms and Andrew Armour.

We talk to creatives and people working in the creative industries about a number of topics from AI (of course) to performing teaching creativity, managing creative people, coaching creative people to name a few.

If you are of a creative inclination love to hear your thoughts.

Six Before Breakfast The podcast of The ICD, for those who make a living by being creative and talented - or manage and coach those who do. Conversations with creatives from across the creative industries, the arts, sciences and industry.

'It does not make sense to pay an artist to get something in three weeks, if you can get it for essentially nothing' No, this is not panic or drama or exaggeration. And we cannot ignore the questions that are arising, very, very quickly for the creative sectors. The more I learn about this (and yes, use some of this technology) - the more I sense that AI, as Kevin Kelly, Cal Newport and Elon Musk have suggested, will have a greater change in the long term, than we currently imagine. It is not going away. No - it may not replace our value, human ideation, creativity. But, it will change how creative and industries people work just as mobiles, computers and web has. Robotics and automation will inevitably change physical industries. AI will inevitably change the knowledge industries. As Cal Newport has pointed out, there will be some dark days for anyone who is a knowledge or creative worker. It is naive to think otherwise. But, as an optimist, he points out there may be a lot of boring administration, research and process work, that we can all enjoy consigning to the past...

How Generative AI Could Replace Artists in Creative Industries | WSJ Tech News Briefing The threat that technology will replace workers is something more people are grappling with due to the introduction of new tools powered by generative artifi...

T.S. Elliot once wrote that “Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity” It only takes a simple google search of creativity quotes to see how much angst has been wound around the processes of the creative titans of the past few hundred years. Read on

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-does-creative-person-need-feel-happy-productive-ross-simms

What Does A Creative Person Need To Feel Happy And Productive? ICD - promoting better coaching, personal and professional development - for people working in the creative industries. T.

As I get older I find I'm getting a little less hot-headed about stuff. I spent some time considering if my ability to argue effectively was age related, or if we could teach ourselves a few skills. Here is my thought piece:

How Do We Have Arguments That Are Productive? ICD - promoting better coaching, personal and professional development - for people working in the creative industries. 'It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Creativity is innate to all humans. How we access it depends on how we approach our lives.

How Can We Live More Creatively? ICD - promoting better coaching, personal and professional development - for people working in the creative industries. Did you grow up in a world where creativity was highlighted as an individual talent? If you did then you might have heard comments like “he’s very creative, he plays 3 musical ...

A few years back Google embarked on a two year study on team performance. Not surprisingly they discovered that psychological safety is crucial to keeping teams engaged and delivering creative solutions to problems; because when people feel comfortable taking risks without the looming danger of being punished if things go wrong, they function better. So why are we creating work environments where people are in a constant state of fight or flight?

High-Performing Teams Need Psychological Safety. Here’s How to Create It The highest-performing teams have one thing in common: psychological safety — the belief that you won’t be punished when you make a mistake. Studies show that psychological safety allows for moderate risk-taking, speaking your mind, creativity, and sticking your neck out without fear of having i...