The book focuses on how leaders are learning to develop the creative capabilities of their team members and themselves. Through this learning, teams are developing original approaches to their work, benefitting their customers, patients, employees and other stakeholders.Using a strong interdisciplinary approach, How Leaders Learn to Boost Creativity in Teams introduces insights from the domains of psychology, creativity, leadership and power, and integrates these through a proposed framework for leading innovation. It contains nine in-depth, current-day cases of learning and workplace-based applications and has an optimistic message: creativity can be learnt. Making connections between current day research, learning and application in work contexts, it will appeal to leaders and students alike seeking to think outside of the box.

Innovation Leadership in Practice provides a unique source of new insights on the role of innovation leadership and effective practices through conceptual models, empirical case studies, development interventions, and tools.

Welcome to a world of limitless possibilities in "Mastery in the Making: Navigating the Future with Essential Life Skills - Your Journey as a Leader in Tomorrow’s Organisations 2035 and Beyond"! In today's whirlwind of careers, the challenge is clear: crafting a skill set that's not just relevant, but also secures your foothold in an ever-changing landscape. The 4th industrial and agricultural revolutions are shaking things up, compelling organisations to revamp, renew, or sometimes, completely reinvent their business models. Picture this: Organisations and governments are sprinting towards the future, propelled by the Revolutions, Climate Change, and the recent Pandemic. The future is speeding toward us, and there's no time to wait. Ever wished you could time travel to get a sneak peek into what lies ahead? Imagine absorbing the wisdom of the future and bringing it back to shape your present career. While we haven't mastered time travel (yet!), fear not! This book is your virtual time machine, propelling you into the year 2035 and beyond, casting you as the central character in a play set within the organisations of the future. Get ready for a gripping adventure, laid out in an easy-to-navigate format, complete with engaging graphics and scenarios grounded in real business experiences and believable future organisations. Each chapter unfolds with a captivating career and business case study set in 2035, guiding you through a four-step process to grasp the essence of the subject. Picture yourself immersing in the chapter's theme, enriched with theories, insights, and tasks tailored to your "chapter of the moment" career in 2035! But hold on, this book isn't just about business; it's a journey through a futuristic lens, envisioning life with Robots in 2035 and beyond. Brace yourself for a revolutionary perspective on thinking skills and career development in this dynamic era. This non-fiction book is about revolutionising work-life skills. Embark on a journey like never before, embracing a creative twist and a novel approach to career development in the 2000s. Uncover transformative techniques that ignite your higher-order thinking skills, empowering you to embrace change and lifelong learning. This isn't just about cementing your career - it’s about building a future-ready career that thrives. In your odyssey through these pages, you will encounter the enigmatic Mind Maze, a symbolic riddle awaiting your deciphering. This labyrinth represents the challenges and opportunities in your path - a metaphor for your career journey. As you solve the riddle within the Mind Maze, you shall advance to your next role and the next chapter, symbolising your progression in this enthralling narrative. It's time to leap into 2035 and let the robots join the conversation. Ready to shape your destiny? Let's dive in!

Creativity, the generation of novel and useful ideas, and innovation, the transformation of these ideas into new products, processes, and services, are both critical for the long-term viability, profitability, and growth of organizations. Moreover, the complex, risky, and uncertain nature of innovative efforts demonstrates the importance of organizational leaders to effectively manage the innovative process. In this element, we discuss the role of leaders in effectively facilitating the creative problem-solving process that gives rise to innovative products, processes, and services. More specifically, we highlight the knowledge, skills, and behaviors needed to effectively lead across three integrated facets of this process-leading the people, leading the work, and leading the firm. This discussion promotes an understanding of how leaders manage those asked to engage in innovative efforts and, moreover, how leaders systematically integrate creative ideas within the organization to ensure the development and success of innovative products, processes, or services.

Provides a practical, research-based roadmap for developing and applying twelve key competencies to multiply an individual’s impact, elevate the performance of others, and accelerate progress toward mission-oriented goals, generating greater value.

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.

This volume presents a distinctly multilevel perspective on creativity and innovation that considers individual-level, team-level, and firm-level factors. In illustrating these factors, this volume presents both theoretical and practical implications to guide researchers and practitioners alike in the continued study and advancement of creativity and innovation in organizations. Chapter authors not only discuss the abilities, personality, and motivational attributes that contribute to employee creativity, but they also address the impact of leadership and climate on creative performance in teams. Subsequently, firm-level influences such as planning, learning, strategy, and professions that influence the success of creative and innovative efforts are examined. With contributions from leading scholars around the globe, this book offers a comprehensive review of creativity and innovation to assist researchers and practitioners in their quests to understand and improve organizational creativity and innovation. This is an essential resource for scholars, researchers, or graduate students interested in creativity, innovation, and organizational behavior.