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Creative Leadership
Skills That Drive Change

Second Edition
May 2012 | 376 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
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Creativity—today's most important leadership skill

Successful leadership today relies heavily on an individual's ability to effectively respond to and proactively drive change—in short, to be creative. This book helps readers enhance their creative talents and employ these skills as a leader, providing a concrete set of principles and procedures based in creativity that, once internalized, will forever change how we lead.



 
Chapter 1: Change, Leadership, and Creativity: The Powerful Connection
 
Chapter 2: Creative Problem Solving: A Framework for Creative Leadership
 
Chapter 3: Creative Leadership: The Foundational Skills for Creative Problem Solving
 
Chapter 4: Creative Leadership: The Cognitive and Affective Skill Base for Creative Problem Solving
 
Chapter 5: Transforming Your Thinking: Developing a Creative Mindset
 
Chapter 6: Assessing the Situation: Tools for Diagnostic Thinking
 
Chapter 7: Exploring the Vision: Tools for Visionary Thinking
 
Chapter 8: Formulating Challenges: Tools for Strategic Thinking
 
Chapter 9: Exploring Ideas: Tools for Ideational Thinking
 
Chapter 10: Formulating Solutions: Tools for Evaluative Thinking
 
Chapter 11: Exploring Acceptance: Tools for Contextual Thinking
 
Chapter 12: Formulating a Plan: Tools for Tactical Thinking
 
Chapter 13: Psychological Diversity: Leading People with Different Creativity Styles
 
Chapter 14: Building a Climate for Creativity: How Leadership Sets the Tone
 
Conclusion

Very good book. Students have been enjoying the book and the activitiess

Dr Anthony Koyzis
Educational Studies , University of Nicosia
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Very good content on managing creativity, and development of creative leadership skills.

Dr Joseph Affholter
Entrepreneurship, Saginaw Valley State University
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This book helps our students at undergrad level to appreciate the importance of leadership in today's organisations. The sound theoretical background marries very well the practical concepts considered.

Dr Margaret Mangion
Edward de Bono Institute, University of Malta
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Very good book for the course. Students are using at least half of the chapters

Dr Natalia Vershinina
Department of Strategic Management and Marketing, De Montfort University
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Excellent text, we have used it as an essential reading for the Perspectives of Creative leadership module for the last 3 years

Dr Natalia Vershinina
Department of Strategic Management and Marketing, De Montfort University
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unsuitable for unit

Dr Pauline Loewenberger
other, University of Bedfordshire
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Creative Leadership helps the reader getting a better understanding of the way in which creative processes can be supported through communicative actions. It presents important frameworks and allows the reader to create an understanding of how to work with and have an effect on individuals, teams and organisational processes for achieving creative outcomes.

Dr Sven-Ove Horst
Department of Media & Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam
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Introduces some worthwhile concepts and frameworks that could help future entrepreneurs

Mr Craig Andrew Busby
Business Law, City of Oxford College
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Course cancelled. If reactivated we will probably use this book.

Mr Indranath Neogy
Communication Studies, Hult International Business School
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Content and clarity of the tables within the book have created new ideas for lectures. The creativity and accessibilty of techniques makes this text highly recommended

Mr John Bartlett
Childcare, Haslingden Community Link and Children's Centre
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Key features

Key features

  • Demonstrates that creativity is a process that leads to change and shows how leaders help individuals and organizations grow by deliberately facilitating productive change
  • Utilizes the Creative Problem Solving (CPS) process to provide the thinking skills – diagnostic, visionary, strategic, ideational, evaluative, contextual, and tactical – and procedures that leaders can use to enhance their effectiveness in creating and managing change
  • Offers case studies to demonstrate the Creative Problem Solving process in action, with specific focus given to becoming a creative change leader, building a creative culture, and fostering a creative climate.

New to the Second Edition

  • Includes an expanded discussion of the important role creativity plays in leadership, and how the concept of creative leadership fits into emerging views of leaders
  • Provides a more extensive account of the skills necessary to be an effective creative leader, and discussion of how the concepts of management, creative management, and creative leadership differ
  • Presents a broader range of historical and contemporary examples, including Google, Blockbuster, General Motors, and McDonalds, to illustrate important aspects of creative leadership
  • Offers enhanced graphics throughout to bring CPS to life visually, including a clear representation of the Thinking Skills Model that is central to CPS