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Author : Chris Grivas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 31,13 MB
Release : 2011-11-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1118150848

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New tools for tapping the creativity of teams and achieving breakthrough results The Innovative Team is an engaging business fable that reveals the impact our underlying work style preferences have on our teams and their results. The authors present a breakthrough thinking process for developing successful teams. They introduce a uniquely effective set of tools built on FourSight, a measure of problem-solving preferences field-tested by top consultants, which can help anyone from professionals to novices solve problems and achieve performance breakthroughs. FourSight enables teams to understand their patterns of thinking and manage themselves more deliberately toward accomplishing a goal. Written as a business fable that recounts the story of a team's journey from dysfunctional to high functioning Outlines a new and effective set of tools for enhanced team performance Details the four stages of a dynamic breakthrough thinking process The Innovative Team offers a great resource for management and leadership development professionals, team leaders, and anyone interested in kick-starting innovation in their workplaces and lives.

Author : Mark A. Runco
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 46,21 MB
Release : 2024-08-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1839102152

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The Handbook of Creativity Assessment provides a holistic overview of the current theories and methods used to evaluate creativity. Setting out clear guidance for the effective assessment of both creative potential and creative performance, it paints a comprehensive picture of the beneficial nature of measuring creativity accurately, however it is expressed.

Author : Gerard J. Puccio
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 31,21 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1412913802

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Creative thinking is a core competence for change leaders, and research has shown that creative thinking can be enhanced through creative problem solving principles and procedures. This book taps into the more than 50 years of creative problem solving research and application as a powerful means for developing creative change leaders.

Author : Geraldine Cousin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 15,42 MB
Release : 2024-10-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1040150551

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First Published in 2000, Recording Women documents the work of three leading feminist theatre companies, Sphinx Theatre Company, Scarlett Theatre and Foresight Theatre, through a combination of interviews with theatre practitioners and detailed descriptions of productions in performance. Each of the six productions is innovative in content and style. Scarlett Theatre’s Paper Walls and Foresight Theatre’s Boadicea: The Red-Bellied Queen employ a skillful mixture of text, music, physical performance, humour and seriousness to explore, respectively, domestic abuse and rape (of women and community). Scarlett Theatre’s The Sisters and Sphinx’s Voyage in the Dark adapt existing texts. The sisters is a ritualized re-enactment of Chekhov’s Three Sisters in which only the female characters from the play appear. Voyage in the Dark uses film-noir-like theatrical effects and the insistent rhythms of the tango to evoke the rootlessness and sense of alienation that characterizes Jean Rhys’s novel. Slap (Foursight Theatre) and Goliath (Sphinx) are both one woman shows. Slap, performed by Naomi Cooke, explores images of motherhood, including lesbian motherhood and the concept of virgin birth. Goliath, performed by Nicola McAuliffe, is a dramatization, by Bryony Lavery, of Beatrix Campbell’s powerful study of the 1991 riots in Cardiff, Oxford and Tyneside. This is a must read for scholars and researchers of theatre studies.

Author : Dr. Goodwin Lowe
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 49,18 MB
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Education
ISBN :

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Belonging Beyond the Buzz Words... Belonging lays the foundation in which businesses stand stronger, innovative, and more profitable. In the book, you will find that research supports this statement, and the chapters include creative and practical tools to help leaders build better teams with inclusion in mind. It’s no secret that topics surrounding diversity, equity, and inclusion can be difficult to discuss for many reasons. Some feel they need to be an expert in the subject to contribute to the conversation. Simply, most people do not want to offend someone by saying the wrong thing. These are valid and valued perceptions to have as a facilitator, an organizational leader, and a team member. Reflections on each chapter provide insight to help the reader achieve creative self-discovery, foster team diversity, establish inclusive standards, and uncover pathways of connection that foster belonging. This book demonstrates that you do not have to be an expert in the subject matter, but you can gain the skills to be confident, knowledgeable, and successful in your organizations. Moreover, this book will equip facilitators, team members, leaders, etc. to be Creative Champions of Change. What’s the Secret Sauce?... Have you ever considered the way you think or process information to be an extension of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging? In 2018, the author set out to uncover if we could measure implicit bias of different thinking styles within teams in real time. The results of her research investigation yielded a new theory she calls Cognitive Diversity Appreciation or (CDA). CDA is the secret sauce to inclusion and belonging that builds community as it champions how we connect with one another regardless of how we think or process or perceive information. Employing Scientific Research that Works! CDA supports how a cognitively diverse group of individuals—introverts, extroverts, ambiverts, internal and external processors, neurodivergent and neurotypical individuals—can build a culture of innovation and belonging. Practicing CDA enriches an individual’s experience when working within a team where we can learn from those whose lived experiences, beliefs, perspectives, and ways of receiving and processing information differ from our own.

Author : Michael D. Mumford
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 32,12 MB
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1784715468

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The rapid pace of technological change and globalization of products, competition and services have conspired to place a new premium on innovation for firms across the world. Although many variables influence creativity and innovation, the effective leadership of creative teams has proved especially important. This timely Handbook presents the state of the art for what leaders must do to lead creative teams and how they should do it.

Author : David Penington
Publisher : The Miegunyah Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 11,88 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0522857442

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Engaging and well-written, this memoir offers insight into the public and private life of David Penington, one of Australia's leading public health experts and the former vice chancellor of the University of Melbourne. A fascinating read, the narrative reveals a tireless leader who, at every stage of his working life, has never shunned public controversy in a bid to improve the lives of all Australians. From his appointment to St. Vincent’s Hospital through his assistance in the implementation of the Medicare system, this autobiography highlights Penington’s accomplishments and contributions to Australia’s national public health policy.

Author : Aryna Ryan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 11,59 MB
Release : 2015-03-06
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 0810892243

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While many teens find it easy to express themselves through any number of creative outlets—singing, drawing, writing, or playing a musical instrument—not all young adults are able to readily access their talents. Even worse, some teens are convinced—either by themselves or others—that they don’t have any creative ability at all. They never think to challenge this assumption and as a result, miss out on the pleasures and rewards that tapping into their creative reserves might generate. In Creativity: The Ultimate Teen Guide, Aryna Ryan helps teensremove the barriers to being creative. This book explains what creativity is and what it isn’t, and asserts that everyone—including teens of all ages—are creative beings. Chapters in this book cover • myths of creativity, • creativity assessment, • the role of creativity in happiness, • the Creative Problem Solving process, and • creative brainstorming techniques. Most important, this book offers ways in which teens and those close to them can cultivate creativity. Teens will also learn how to maximize their creative possibilities and resist impulses and individuals that crush creativity. With insights into how teens have the potential to be the most creative people of all, along with a list of resources that can help them, Creativity: The Ultimate Teen Guide is a unique book that young adults and their families will find invaluable.

Author : Carolyn Dismuke
Publisher : Carolyn Dismuke
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,14 MB
Release : 2024-08-04
Category : Travel
ISBN :

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Living your dream takes many forms... A fulfilling career in the city and an active social life had convinced California native Carolyn Dismuke that she was living the dream, but her life changed when she drove by vineyards on back roads. She became a diligent student in a world-renowned wine studies program, where she mastered the classic regions. Eight chapters on France and seven on Italy left her salivating for more. Yet only one chapter on California compelled her to pack her wanderlust and set out to live in a different region every month to soak in all the juicy details. Drink Your Words chronicles her journey through the Golden State's appellations, highlighting vineyard details and travel tips. As she encounters a growing number of creative winemaking characters who coax the velvet nectar into its richest potential, she sees reflected in them her own creativity, bubbling up inside her, struggling to be heard. It’s an inspirational memoir for anyone dying to follow their passion. It’s a helpful guide through California wine country for those who want to road-trip vicariously. It’s for anyone who thinks a girl needs more than four pairs of shoes. Let Carolyn tell you how it’s done!

Author : Erika Block
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 25,37 MB
Release : 1998-04-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1135299544

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In pointing to the way in which women have been historically represented (or left out altogether) and the reality of women's lives, feminist performance makes the histories, lives and desires of women visible, as this volume of plays from the 1990s aims to illustrate.