Fostering Creativity in Self and the Organization: Your Professional Edge

ISBN-13: 9781606497982 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 160 str.

Eric W. Stein

Opis

As a professional, this book will help you maximize your creative potential - learning that successful creative expression is a function of hard work and discipline rather than innate talent or genius. The author explains more in his video below.Fostering Creativity in Self and The Organization: Your Professional Edge helps individuals, and their organizations, learn to maximize creative potential. The book explodes the myth that creative people are born rather than developed through practice and hard work. All people are creative and have the ability to be innovative, not just artists, musicians and writers. The Professional Edge defines these skills and demonstrates how to develop them. These are the skills required of 21st century professionals, which can be developed through awareness, coaching and practice resulting in mastery. This book will appeal to anyone seeking to advance his or her career. It will also be of great value to human resource executives who want to guide the development of a workforce that has the skills to effectively compete in fast-paced competitive industries or to open up new and innovative blue ocean market spaces.

As a professional, this book will help you maximize yourcreative potential-learning that successful creativeexpression is a function of hard work and discipline ratherthan innate talent or genius. Reaching your creative potentialrequires an open mind and this book will help.The author discusses some of the mental models thatfacilitate or impede your development as a creative person.Since creativity encompasses so many things, the authorfocuses on four creative behaviors and cognitions criticalto self-development and career advancement: improvisationalcapacity, design thinking, your experimental and scientificmind, and aesthetic awareness. These abilities are criticalsuccess factors for 21st century professionals.Inside, youll learn how to leverage these abilities alongwith innate strengths derived from your multiple intelligenceinventory, which include linguistic intelligence,mathematical/logical intelligence, visual/spatial intelligence,musical intelligence, interpersonal intelligence,intrapersonal intelligence, kinesthetic intelligence, andnaturalistic intelligence. Youll also learn how to identifyspecific ways to accelerate your progress. The book concludeswith a plan of action to systematically develop yourcreative potential over time.