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Creative Leadership
Skills That Drive Change

Second Edition


February 2011 | 376 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Creative Leadership: Skills That Drive Change demonstrates how creative thinking is an essential element of leadership, especially when bringing about change. In this engaging book, the authors provide a unique combination of conceptual arguments, practical principles, and proven tools to enhance future leaders' effectiveness in creating and managing change.

Key Features:

- Intimately connects leadership and creativity: Leadership is now characterized as the catalyst for change, while creative thinking is the process that leads to change. This is the first book to make an explicit and elaborate conceptual link between creativity and leadership.

- Utilizes the Creative Problem Solving process: This book explores the more than 50 years of Creative Problem Solving (CPS) research and application. While other books focus on creative thinking and CPS, this is the first to offer a philosophical position that is then followed up with specific principles and procedures that leaders can employ to deliberately enhance their effectiveness in creating and managing change.

- Promotes "deliberate creativity": The authors are all faculty at the International Center for Studies in Creativity, Buffalo State—State University of New York, internationally renowned as a leading authority on the topic of Creative Problem Solving. Their rich experience encourages students to take a proactive approach toward the production of novel and useful ideas that address a predicament or opportunity.

 
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

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Dr Pauline Loewenberger
other, University of Bedfordshire
May 9, 2013

Very good content on managing creativity, and development of creative leadership skills.

Dr Joseph Affholter
Entrepreneurship, Saginaw Valley State University
March 19, 2013

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
March 14, 2013

The book came much later as it was expected, so that the semester had already passed and we could not use this book.

Feedback for the book:
The book provides information on main principles for creativity and proposes tools to enhance it. It succeeds to build a good connection between the theory and its verification by modern empirical research.
The authors give sometimes very obvious information (like definitions of „what is process“ (p.50), „curiosity“ or „data“ (p.114))
The book presents interesting information on changing view of creativity, underlying the possibility to „learn“ creativity. At the end of the book several small case studies are provided. It would be better to integrate the case studies directly into the theoretical part.

Ms Maiia Deutschmann
Faculty of Business Admin and Economic, Viadrina European University
October 29, 2012

This textbook is a useful source for those who want to know -in practice- how to be a creative leader. It is valuable, simple in presenting the content and application exercises, thus it ensures learning.

Professor Hanan Alkorashy
College of Nursing, King Saud University
August 21, 2012

Contains a few really interesting chapters, and will be really useful as supplementary reading to the course

Ms Emma Stevens
Centre for Lifelong learning, Hull University
September 24, 2011

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
September 20, 2011

Good, with a broad approach, but a bit of a bias towards the idea that creativity is manageable within rational processes; at bit of a technological bias, so to speak.

Mr Mats Eklöf
Department of psychology, Göteborg University
September 8, 2011

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
May 27, 2011

Still in review.

Mr Michael Kingston
Business Management Program, American Graduate University
March 30, 2011
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