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New ideas are essential for industry - they are the lifeblood of successful organisations.
Creative and innovative thinking, the means by which ideas are born and nurtured, are not products of clearly defined steps and can be widely encouraged.
"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game." Goethe
The Concise Adair on Creativity and Innovation encapsulates all of John Adair's writing on how to enhance creativity within your organisation with a focus on team training, generation of ideas, communication and overcoming obstacles, the key characteristics of innovators and how to organise and use them to the best effect.
Packed with practical advice and shrewd insight, leadership expert Adair summarises everything you need to know to understand the creative process and manage innovation effectively in this book.
John Adair's books have sold hundreds of thousands of copies. You will find this book equally valuable, whether you are beginning your career in management or looking for an expert refresher course.
Contents
Introduction
Part one: Creative thinking
The creative process
Obstacles which inhibit creativity
The non-creative person
Developing creativity
Remember
Decision-making and the creative thinker
Key elements of creative thinking and decision-making
Analysis
Synthesis
Valuing
Other useful approaches to creative thinking and decision-making
Imaginative thinking
Conceptual thinking
Intuition
Checklist: How does your mind work?
Using creative thinking to evaluate the options
Checklist: Options
Calculating the risks
Part two: Innovation
The process of innovation
Five factors to create the right climate for innovation
Innovation and organisation
Characteristics of an innovative organisation
Checklist for the innovative organisation
What qualities should a chief executive as a leader have?
Motivation and innovation
Characteristics to look for when recruiting
What do innovative people expect from the organisation they work for?
Distinctive characteristics of the creative leader
The generation of ideas
Team innovation
Communicating about innovation
Checklist for building on ideas
Brainstorming
Checklist: Brainstorming
Two more methods of collecting ideas
Suggestion schemes
Quality circles
Checklist for the generation of ideas
Dealing with change and overcoming obstacles to innovation
Criticism
Exercise: Overcoming obstacles
Part three: Summary
A creative thinker and innovator in practice
The seven habits of successful creative thinkers and innovators
1 Thinking outside the apparent confines of the problem/situation
Checklist: Beyond the nine dots
2 Welcoming chance intrusions
Checklist: Chance intrusions
3 Listening to your depth mind (the unconscious mind)
Checklist: Are you listening to your depth mind?
4 Suspending judgement
Checklist: Suspending judgement
5 Using the stepping stones of analogy
Exercise: Putting the stepping stones of analogy into practice
6 Tolerating ambiguity
Checklist: Tolerating ambiguity
7 Banking all ideas from all sources
Checklist: Banking ideas
Conclusion
Checklist for creativity and innovation
Appendix
Solutions to problems
Quotes about creativity and innovation
