Making Creativity Practical Innovation That Gets Results

Author : Center for Creative Leadership (CCL)
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118155238
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Creativity Practical written by Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creative solutions can be challenged and defended in the pursuit of profitability. But first, creativity must be demystified. A process that targets innovation provides leaders with just such a problem-solving approach. The goal is to produce high-quality ideas that are appropriate to the task—which means groups and organizations can implement them with less risk. Work with the targeted innovation process consists of activities in five areas: stating the problem in a way that encourages creative problem solving, learning and understanding different problem-solving styles, learning and understanding creative pathways and their relationship to problem solving, generating ideas, and evaluating those ideas. Targeted innovation reconciles creativity with management. Managers can use it to solve problems that meet their organization’s call for innovative answers to current challenges.

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Publisher : Center for Creative Leadership
ISBN 13 : 1604910836
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visual Explorer Facilitator’s Guide written by and published by Center for Creative Leadership. This book was released on 2010 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Letter from the Authors; Visual Explorer Quick Guide; Introduction; Using Visual Explorer; Preparing for Visual Explorer; Conducting a Visual Explorer Session; Visual Explorer Applications; References and Resources; Visual Explorer Worksheet; FAQ; About the Authors

Author : Michael T. Mitchell
Publisher : Center for Creative Leadership
ISBN 13 : 1604918772
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Supporting Innovators: Trust, Purpose, Partnership written by Michael T. Mitchell and published by Center for Creative Leadership. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovation work is risky, stressful, and emotionally draining, and the only way to span this innovation gap, and address the needs of innovators, is effective leadership. By trusting your innovation team, keeping them focused on the purpose of their work, and becoming a partner rather than just a boss, you can provide the support your team needs to create great innovations.

Author : Robert Johansen
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1609944879
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leaders Make the Future written by Robert Johansen and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2012-05-07 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What future forces will affect a leaders ability to lead in the next year, 5 years, 10 years?

Author : David Horth
Publisher : Center for Creative Leadership
ISBN 13 : 1604917067
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leadership Metaphor Explorer Facilitator's Guide written by David Horth and published by Center for Creative Leadership. This book was released on 2012-06-04 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Leadership Metaphor Explorer Facilitator's Guide provides a facilitator with helpful instruction to use the Leadership Metaphor Explorer Tool - a compact tool for enabling creative, insightful conversations within and among groups of people.

Author : Drew Boyd
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 145165930X
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside the Box written by Drew Boyd and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The ‘inside-the-box approach’ can reveal key opportunities for innovation that are hiding in plain sight” (Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive). The traditional attitude toward creativity in the American business world is to “think outside the box”—to brainstorm without restraint in hopes of coming up with a breakthrough idea, often in moments of crisis. Sometimes it works, but it’s a problem-specific solution that does nothing to engender creative thinking more generally. Inside the Box demonstrates Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT), which systemizes creativity as part of the corporate culture. This counterintuitive and powerfully effective approach to creativity requires thinking inside the box, working in one’s familiar world to create new ideas independent of specific problems. SIT’s techniques and principles have instilled creative thinking into such companies as Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, and other industry leaders. Inside the Box shows how corporations have successfully used SIT in business settings as diverse as medicine, technology, new product development, and food packaging. Dozens of books discuss how to make creative thinking part of a corporate culture, but none takes the innovative and unconventional approach of Inside the Box. With “inside the box” thinking, companies of any size can become sufficiently creative to solve problems even before they develop and to innovate on an ongoing basis. It’s a system that works! “Boyd and Goldenberg explain the basic building blocks for creativity and by doing so help all of us better express our potential” (Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational).

Author : Jean Lobell
Publisher : Center for Creative Leadership
ISBN 13 : 1604915307
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meeting the Job Challenges of Nonprofit Leaders written by Jean Lobell and published by Center for Creative Leadership. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fieldbook aims to put many of the skills and insights gained by participants who have attended management programs through the Community Resource Exchange (CRE). The strategies offered here will provide nonprofit leaders with approaches to their challenges that shift their perspective on things or stretch their current repertoire of practices and competencies. Applying these approaches are developmental experiences, enabling nonprofit leaders to supplement or deepen their leadership talent. By implementing the suggested approaches, nonprofit leaders will learn by doing, a key ingredient in adult learning.

Author : Jean Lobell
Publisher : Center for Creative Leadership
ISBN 13 : 1604918322
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meeting the Job Challenges of Nonprofit Leaders: A Fieldbook on Strategies and Actions written by Jean Lobell and published by Center for Creative Leadership. This book was released on 2015-01-05 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nonprofit organizations need to depend on mission-oriented, motivated, and committed leaders who have a mix of social awareness, programmatic expertise, operational knowledge and skills, strong relationship capacities, and sound judgment to deliver results in an environment in which they must function and fulfill their missions with very limited resources while simultaneously demonstrating the impact of every dollar they raise.Community Resource Exchange, a management consulting firm that works with nonprofit organizations of all sizes, delivers leadership and management programs designed to build the competencies of nonprofit leaders. This fieldbook aims to put many of the skills and insights gained by participants in CRE's cohort learning programs into the hands of more nonprofit leaders.The strategies offered here will provide nonprofit leaders with approaches to their challenges that shift their perspective on things or stretch their current repertoire of practices and competencies. Applying these approaches are developmental experiences, enabling nonprofit leaders to supplement or deepen their leadership talent. By implementing the suggested approaches, nonprofit leaders will learn by doing, a key ingredient in adult learning.

Author : Tomas Jarvinen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000363104
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strategic Cultural Center Management written by Tomas Jarvinen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-14 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategic Cultural Center Management focuses on private cultural centers and their operational preconditions. The aim is to illustrate how to strategically manage a cultural center in varied external environments. Analysing processes of organizational change, the author uses institutional and resource dependence theories alongside concepts such as business models, profitability, mission focus and quality management. The book examines theoretical and managerial implications, highlighting that cultural managers lean towards different strategies that diversify resource streams, facilitating agile strategic responses to institutional pressures. Offering valuable theoretical, empirical and conceptual analysis, this book serves as an incomparable reference for researchers, postgraduate students, civic leaders and arts managers involved in the creative and cultural industries.

Author : A. Kakabadse
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230306497
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leading Smart Transformation written by A. Kakabadse and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the turbulence of recent times, how we run corporations has been examined from every angle. Corporations have proved adept at change; governments have stuck to established rules. The challenge is to put in place machinery to provide services in a way that resists the growth of bureaucracy. The need for SMART government could not be starker.