Creativity, Cognition and Development, 2^nd Ed.

Creativity, Innovation and Change -- Book 1

The Open University

Publisher: The Open University, 2000

ISBN: 0-7492-9594-5

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• Guide
• Aims
• Overview
• Associated Materials
• Part 1 Creativity
• Chapter 1 Creativity Theories
• 1.1 Creativity
• 1.2 Theories
• Historical shift
• Ability
• Mental skill
• Relevant experience
• Intrinsic motivation
• Climate
• Social context
• Emergent creativity
• Changing conceptions of creativity
• Developing creativity
• 1.3 Review
• Chapter 2 Creative Management
• 2.1 Creative Leaders and Managers
• Creative leader
• Creative manager
• 2.2 Creative Teams
• Climate
• 2.3 Creative Organization
• 2.4 Organizational Change
• 2.5 Review
• Part 2 Perception
• Chapter 3 Cognition
• 3.1 Tacit Knowledge
• The brain
• Unconscious information processing
• The smart unconscious
• Unconscious learning
• Unconscious decision making
• Implications
• 3.2 Intuitive Management
• Management thinking
• Intuition
• Recognizing intuition
• Judgement
• Judgement biases
• Implications
• 3.3 Mind Sets
• Barriers
• Beliefs
• Self-fulfilling prophecy
• Reframing
• Implications
• 3.4 Review
• Chapter 4 Metaphors
• 4.1 Organizational Metaphors
• Biological metaphors
• Social metaphors
• Culture
• Cognitive metaphors
• Systemic metaphors
• Network
• Complexity
• Implications
• 4.2 Management Metaphors
• Management
• Managers
• 4.3 Paradigms
• Organizational paradigms
• Paradigm shift
• 4.4 Review
• Part 3 Style
• Chapter 5 Style
• 5.1 Personality Inventories
• Reliability and validity
• 5.2 Adaptors and Innovators
• Characteristics
• Problem solving
• Relations between opposing types
• Communication
• Technique preference
• Level
• KAI Inventory
• Subscales
• 5.3 MBTI Types
• Preference
• Work preference
• Communication
• Problem solving
• Type and time
• Temperament
• Cognitive bias and MBTI type
• Leadership
• Innovation style
• Type
• 5.4 Learning Style
• 5.5 Relationship Between Inventories
• The big five traits
• 5.6 Review
• Chapter 6 Roles
• 6.1 Team Roles
• Belbin's inventory
• The roles
• Successful groups
• 6.2 Innovation Roles
• Stages
• Roles
• Inventor
• Innovator
• Entrepreneur
• Champion
• Rewards
• 6.3 Review
• Part 4 Development
• Chapter 7 Development
• 7.1 Change
• Trends
• 7.2 Capabilities
• Perceptual flexibility
• Proactivity
• 7.3 Development
• Learning
• Linearity
• Cycle
• 7.4 Sustainability
• Fragmentation
• Growth
• 7.5 Review
• Appendix A Life Goals
• Appendix B Problem Solutions