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Organizational Creativity: A Practical Guide for Innovators & Entrepreneurs
Gerard J. Puccio
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This compelling new text is designed to transform the reader into a creative thinker and leader. Arguing that creativity is an essential skill that must be developed, the authors take a highly practical approach, providing strategies, tools and cases to help readers hone their creative abilities.
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About Gerard J. Puccio
Gerard J. Puccio is Department Chair and Professor at the International Center for Studies in Creativity, Buffalo State. Gerard has written more than 60 articles, chapters and books. His most recent book The Innovative Team, co-authored with Chris Grivas, is a fable about a team that turns around a dysfunctional situation through the use of proven creative-thinking tools. In 2011 ... Read morehe and his colleagues, Marie Mance and Mary Murdock, published the second edition of their widely adopted book Creative Leadership: Skills that Drive Change. Gerard is an accomplished speaker and consultant; he has worked with major corporations and universities. Some of his recent clients include the BBC, The Smithsonian Institute, BNP Paribas, Rubbermaid, and Coca-Cola. In 2013 Dr. Puccio was selected by the Teaching Company as one of America's Great Lecturers and as such was invited to design and deliver a course comprised of 24 video sessions. This Great Course, titled The Creative Thinker's Toolkit, was released in January 2014. Among other responsibilities, Gerard serves as a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Sheridan College, Oakville, Canada, and is a member of the selection committee for the Toy Hall of Fame at the National Museum of Play. John F. Cabra is an Associate Professor at the State University of New York College at Buffalo's International Center for Studies in Creativity where as part of a team he focuses on teaching, assessing and researching the science of creativity. John specializes in facilitating and accelerating scientific and interdisciplinary innovation. John has written journal articles, books chapters and books in the areas of business, technology, engineering, and creativity. In recognition for his work, he was awarded the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching, the State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, and grants from the National Science Foundation and the State University of New York. John is also a Fulbright Scholar. Some organizations that have benefited from John's training and organizational development expertise include IBM, Pfizer, Kraft Foods, Coca-Cola, British Home Office, National Science Foundation, NASA, Drexel University, Penn State University, Purdue University, and The Ohio State University. Dr. Cabra held internal consulting positions for American Airlines in the fields of training and development, employee relations, and organizational development. Before joining American Airlines, he was a training and organizational development specialist for Fisher-Price Toys. Nathan Schwagler is a founding Co-Director of The Dali Museum Innovation Labs, where he serves as lead program designer and executive facilitator. Before joining the Museum, Nathan served as the nation's first Business School Creative-In-Residence at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, where he designed and delivered courses on Creativity and Innovation and New Venture Creation. His students were back-to-back-to-back national champions in the Collegiate Entrepreneurs' Organizations' business simulation competition, and his 3-member startup academic department was recognized as the top Emerging Entrepreneurship Education Program across the entire United States by the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) in 2013. As a consultant, Nathan has supported more than 150 organizations including: Abbott Labs, Transamerica Insurance, DuPont Chemical, Novartis, the Miller/Coors Brewing co., the Converse Shoe co. (NIKE), the Tampa Bay Rays, the Home Shopping Network, Bloomin' Brands, Raymond James Financial, and thousands of innovators as they've deployed their innovation capabilities to drive business outcomes. Nathan holds a BA in Psychology and a Master of Science degree in Creativity from SUNY - Buffalo State, and a Master of Science degree in Entrepreneurship from the University of South Florida. He is a published author of peer-reviewed and popular press articles. Show Less
Reviews for Organizational Creativity: A Practical Guide for Innovators & Entrepreneurs
Organizational Creativity is a wonderful book - so engaging, enlightening, and inspiring that readers will hardly notice how much they are learning. It gives a guided tour through each stage of the innovation process, from identifying and defining the most important problems, to generating breakthrough ideas, to successfully implementing the best solutions. Aspiring entrepreneurs, innovators, and business leaders will find ... Read morehere the keys to nurturing not only their best ideas but also their most creative selves.
Teresa Amabile Educational experts and business leaders throughout the world have consistently cited creativity, innovation and entrepreneurial skills as vital for professional success in this century. At the Universidad Autonoma de Bucaramanga we have taken the contents of this book to help guide a powerful institutional intervention to make our university the first creative campus in Latin America. As a result, our students now have strategies to release the utmost potential they have within them.
Alberto Montoya Puyana Creative thinking is widely considered a 21st century skill. To best prepare students for today's complex work world, colleges and universities must find pedagogically sound practices that promote creative thinking. Here at Sheridan we have adopted, with great success, many of the principles, methods and tools described in Organizational Creativity. There is little doubt that these strategies are contributing to our students' creative-thinking capabilities.
Mary Preece Another insightful contribution to understanding creativity from Buffalo's International Center. The significance of creativity for innovators and entrepreneurs is badly in need of such clarification.
Tudor Rickards Organizational Creativity is one of the most lucid, thoughtful, and insightful books on how organizations can leverage creativity to produce innovative results. The know-do-be theme and the engaging writing style convincingly articulate ways to develop creativity skills and traits. Anyone interested in fostering innovation in organizations needs to read this book.
Srikant M. Datar Simple, deep, entertaining and useful: that rare combination can be found in this engaging book. A must read for anyone interested in innovation and creativity. I enjoyed it and strongly recommend it.
Sergio Fajardo An easy-to-read, easy-to-use basis for teaching AND DEVELOPING creativity knowledge, skills, and dispositions for students at any level: undergraduate or graduate, or adult learning/community learning course offerings.
Patricia K. O'Connell ...a text has finally been written that gives proper attention to the Creativity side of creativity & innovation.
Eric M. Stark An engaging text for students that is structured to reflect the theoretical frameworks it presents to not only teach through the written word, but through the applied exercises it assigns to the reader.
April J. Spivack Creative and thought provoking.
AnnMarie DiSiena This book is about creativity and how students can better understand a complex subject that is both subjective and ever changing. This book brings about some practical examples of creativity from a historical perspective as well as a current perspective and pushes students to think differently than their peers.
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