Riding the creative roller coaster: How leadership evoke creativity Productivity and innovation
- London ; Philadelphia KoganPage 2014
- xiii, 240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm
Machine generated contents note: The music of innovation -- 01. A Passion For The Future Of Leadership -- The magic triumvirate: innovation, creativity and consciousness -- Collective creativity and collective consciousness (or mind) -- The three keys: thinking, talking and holding space -- Leaning into the emerging future -- Summary -- Designing transformation -- 02. What Is Needed Now? -- VUCA -- Government -- Business -- Education -- Health -- Technology -- Creative talent and Generation Y -- Super-wicked problems -- The growth dilemma -- Innovation as the key -- Quality of consciousness -- Summary -- Stepping in -- 03. A Movement Over A Subtle Threshold -- The evolution of organizational cultures -- The evolution of teams -- The evolution of leadership -- Summary -- How the lows enable the highs -- 04. Riding The Creative Rollercoaster -- The science of creative insight -- The creative rollercoaster -- As a metaphor -- As a lived experience -- As a map -- As a co-creative frequency -- Summary -- The creative power of disbelief -- 05. What Awaits Us On The Other Side? -- Cultures of innovation -- Creative teams -- Evocative leadership -- Breakthrough strategy -- Ecosystem innovation -- Leading the human dimensions of change -- Next generation communications, branding and `de-sign' -- Biological organizing structures -- Summary -- Thickening space -- 06. Creating Containers And Holding Spaces -- On-boarding -- Questing -- Illumination -- Summary -- Breakdown before breakthrough -- 07. States And Qualities Of Mind -- The four states of mind -- The bow and arrow -- The four qualities of mind -- Distortions -- The diamond -- Quantum collapse -- Summary -- A living experiment -- 08. Evoking The Music Of Innovation -- Tuning cultures -- Summary -- Personal Coda.
"Leadership is about creating opportunities for individuals and teams in order to cultivate innovation at all levels of an organization. The only way to shape purposeful, meaningful and successful futures is through innovation. This book turns the current understanding of innovation on its head. It explores how innovation is actually a mindset, not a business led process. How we think, relate, learn and organize
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Leadership. Management -- Technological innovations. Creative ability in business.