Creative Management and Development has been updated with newly commissioned and leading edge chapters on intuitive cognition, complexity, emotion, team innovation, development and well-being. The textbook retains seminal papers on creativity, perception, style, culture and sustainable development.
The contributors to this textbook represent a broad spectrum of perspectives from among the most distinguished names in the field. They give a clear overview of the topics discussed whilst explaining their practical implications.
This textbook is published as a Course Reader for The Open University Course Creativity, Innovation and Change (B822).
PART A: CREATIVITY
A Systems Perspective on Creativity - M Csikszentmihalyi
How To Kill Creativity - T Amabile
Flourishing in Teams - M West and C Sacramento
Developing Creativity and Innovation
PART B: COGNITION
Beyond Cleverness - G Claxton
How To Be Smart without Thinking
Organizational Knowledge Creation - I Nonaka and H Takeuchi
Beyond sense-making - J Sparrow
Emotion, Imagery and Creativity
PART C: STYLE
Personality - S Hampson
State of the Art
Adaptors and Innovators - M Kirton
What Makes a Leader - D Goleman
PART D: CULTURE
Conditions and Levels of Creativity - G Ekvall
The Citizen Company - C Handy
Why My Former Employees still Work for Me - R Semler
PART E: DEVELOPMENT
Creativity, Development and Wellbeing - J Henry
Empowerment - C Argyris
The Emperor's New Clothes
Informal Networks - D Krackhardt and J R Hanson
The Company behind the Chart
PART F: PERCEPTION
Monocultures of the Mind - V Shiva
Natural Capitalism - A Lovins, H Lovins and P Hawken
Surfing the Edge of Chaos - R Pascale
