The Creativity at Work Blog

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Some of my fave  books on creativity and innovation
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visit my Amazon Bookstore for my collections

The Future of Management
by Gary Hamel

The Opposable Mind:
How Successful Leaders …

by Roger L. Martin

Made to Stick:
by Chip Heath

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This month’s newsletter features:

Mix: Introducing the Management Innovation Index©
Upcoming seminars at Royal Roads University on Creativity, Collaboration, Innovation
Books  worth reading

Introducing the Management Innovation Index©

According to Gary Hamel, author of The Future of Management, the three big challenges for companies over the next generation are going to be:

Adaptability: How you build things that can [...]

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Carla Rieger has written a compelling story, inspired by true events in her own life.
After her father’s death, Carla Rieger found the journal she had once given him and discovered he had filled it with details about the secrets of his past.
This discovery became the catalyst for The Change Artist, a semi-autobiographical journey of discovery, [...]

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What can organizations learn from the Intersection of Business and the Performing Arts?
Rochelle T. Mucha, in her new book, Aesthetic Intelligence: Reclaim the Power of Your Senses, answers this question by examining how principles and practices of performing arts can be used to strengthen alignment, leadership, learning, and performance in organizations.
“The theatre is a place where [...]

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Reading List for my courses on Creativity, Leadership and Innovation at Royal Roads University
Solution Finding: Leading with Creativity
Putting Passion to Work: Potent Leadership
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A Whole New Mind:
by Daniel H. Pink

Artscience: Creativity in the Post-Google [...]

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No I can’t speak Chinese, but if you can here are the details:

本书供培训师、咨询顾问、教育从业者和为员工提供各种类型培训的经理们而编写的。在团队工作中用非传统的方式,通过挖掘参与者的潜在创造力达到拓展新视野的目的。

70个团队建设艺术工具/用音乐、戏剧、故事等手段增进团队合作/国际培训与发展资源库/Orchestrating collaboration at work: 用音乐、戏剧、故事等手段增进团队合作
By 范甘迪, 奈曼
Translated by 童颖, 王淑娟
Published by 上海远东出版社, 2006
ISBN 780706238X, 9787807062387
274 pages

The English version is available at Amazon

Orchestrating Collaboration at Work: Using Music, Improv, Storytelling, and Other Arts to Improve Teamwork (Paperback)
by Arthur VanGundy (Author), Linda Naiman (Author)
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