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"In The HotHouse Effect, Barton Kunstler examines the dynamics of diverse communities where creativity has flourished, and pinpoints the factors that drove their exceptional fervor and accomplishments. What's more, he shows you how to assess creativity in your own organization and then establish the environment needed for it to operate at maximum power."
"This book is based on Kunstler's scrupulous study of classic cases - including Elizabethan England,...
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This book is intended for managers who have practiced the best quality and reengineering management techniques and are ready to transform their organizations with the systematic notions of knowledge creation and application. It is for organization leaders who prefer to be inspired with innovation strategy than hit over the head with change management techniques. It does not deal with barriers, hurdles, or conflicts to be resolved, but rather paints...
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In The Craft of Creativity Matthew A. Cronin and Jeffrey Loewenstein present a new way to understand how we innovate. They emphasize the importance of the journey and reveal the limitations of focusing on outcomes. Drawing on a wide range of scholarship, their own research, and interviews with professionals and learners who employ creativity in the arts, engineering, business, and more, Cronin and Loewenstein argue that creativity is a cognitive process...
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Foster has worked as a writer and as a creative director in advertising agencies for 35 years. He proposes a new idea of leadership--"ideaship"--Arguing that leaders should create workplaces that are idea-friendly and encourage workers to be idea-prone. He offers an array of suggestions for personal, organizational, and strategic changes leaders can make to enhance employee creativity. Written in a non-academic, conversational style, with ideas based...
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In this video, Cutting Edge team members explore brainstorming. Sam likes to keep his mind agile by consuming walnuts. Dion is a fan of protein smoothies and exercise. Casey uses giant post-it notes for wild ideas while Steve likes having a whiteboard in his bathroom. At a brainstorming meeting, Marcus has everyone try brain cages to stimulate their thinking. Sam and Dion favor mind mapping for creative work. Openness, honesty, and lack of judgment...
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American business, economics, and society are changing at the speed of light. On the eve of the twenty-first century, the pressure is on, and managers need to learn faster, think smarter, and free themselves from confining assumptions and old mindsets. Bestselling author and business lecturer Jennifer James offers a dynamic new way of achieving these goals in Thinking in the Future Tense, explaining the skills necessary to break free from old mindsets,...
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"Leadership and Spirit gives all of us the perspective and guidance we need to invest ourselves, our fellow workers, and our entire organizations with an essential sense of purpose, commitment, and fulfillment." "Moxley explains what spirit is and shows why leadership and spirit must be woven together. He analyzes prevalent leadership practices and demonstrates how many of those practices cause spirit to wither and wane. He focuses on the skills and...
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Peter Jones, one of Britain's most prominent entrepreneurs, questions the tycoons behind some of the UK's biggest brands. Discussing their successes and failures, their strategies and techniques, Peter sets out to discover what makes their business brains tick. This episode focuses on Moshi Monsters & Jojo Maman Bebe.
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Gain a unique insight into the minds of successful and inspiring business people with this access-all-areas pass into their glossy and fascinating world. Peter Jones, one of Britain's most prominent entrepreneurs, questions the tycoons behind some of the UK's biggest brands. In Cobra Beer & Pimlico Plumbers, Peter sets out to discover what makes the business brains of their owners tick.
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Timpsons & St. Tropez is the last program in the BBC series How We Made Our Millions, in which Peter Jones, one of Britain's most prominent entrepreneurs, questions the tycoons behind some of the U.K.'s biggest brands. In this episode, we meet the owners of Timpsons & St. Tropez. Discussing their successes and failures, their strategies and techniques, Peter sets out to discover what makes their business brains tick.
14) The Range & Lush
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Peter Jones, one of Britain's most prominent entrepreneurs, questions the tycoons behind some of the UK's biggest brands. Discussing their successes and failures, their strategies and techniques, Peter sets out to discover what makes their business brains tick. This episode focuses on The Range and Lush.
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The typical change initiative or business transformation book seems to follow a tried-and-true formula: the world is changing faster, and you'd better get on the bus before you find yourself lying beneath it. It's a little like proposing an end to world hunger - everyone agrees with the objective, the question is how do you get there. In this regard, Stephen Shapiro's book does substantially better than most in terms of offering ideas that really...
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"The Creative Society is the first history to look at modern America through the eyes of its emerging ranks of professional experts, including lawyers, scientists, doctors, administrators, business managers, teachers, policy specialists, and urban planners. Covering the period from the 1890s to the early twenty-first century, Louis Galambos examines the history that shaped professionals and, in turn, their role in shaping modern America. He considers...
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"Video games such as Fortnite, Minecraft, and Pokemon Go have been business successes in recent years, but the industry has not always been that way. As with any field of business, there have been crashes and other market disruptions. Even so, these firms march on, thriving in the face of digitalization and adopting unusual strategies like giving content away for free in order to build market share and draw in customers. The author draws on three...
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