Creative Leadership
Skills That Drive Change
- Gerard J. Puccio - Buffalo State - State University of New York
- Marie Mance - Buffalo State - State University of New York
- Mary C. Murdock - Buffalo State - State University of New York
Creativity & Innovation | Human Resource Development | Industrial & Organizational Psychology | Industrial Psychology | Leadership | Leadership | Leadership Strategies & Policy Practices in the Human Services | Organizational Change | Organizational Culture | Organizational Development | Training & Development
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.
Very good content on managing creativity, and development of creative leadership skills.
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.
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.
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.
Contains a few really interesting chapters, and will be really useful as supplementary reading to the course
Very good book for the course. Students are using at least half of the chapters
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.
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
Still in review.
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