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Creative Problem Solving for Managers

Developing skills for decision making and innovation

By Tony Proctor.

Published December 2009

The regularity with which the term 'solutions' is used in management speak suggests that management is largely about problem solving. To suggest that thinking creatively is a useful skill in solving a problem may be stating the obvious, but experience tells us that under pressure, managers tend to…
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The Routledge Companion to Creativity

Edited by Tudor Rickards, Mark A. Runco and Susan Moger.

Published November 2008

Creativity can be as difficult to define as it is to achieve. This is a complex and compelling area of study and this volume is perfectly poised to explore how creativity can be better understood, and used, in a range of contexts. The book not only centres on creativity in wider organizational…
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Musical Creativity

Multidisciplinary Research in Theory and Practice

Edited by Irène Deliège, and Geraint A. Wiggins.

Published June 2006

This collection initiates a resolutely interdisciplinary research dynamic specifically concerning musical creativity. Creativity is one of the most challenging issues currently facing scientific psychology and its study has been relatively rare in the cognitive sciences, especially in…
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Neuropsychology of Art

Neurological, Cognitive and Evolutionary Perspectives

By Dahlia W. Zaidel.

Published October 2005

The significance of art in human existence has long been a source of puzzlement, fascination, and mystery. In Neuropsychology of Art, Dahlia W. Zaidel explores the brain regions and neuronal systems that support artistic creativity, talent, and appreciation.Both the visual and musical arts are…
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Creativity and the Brain

By Kenneth M. Heilman.

Published April 2005

In Creativity and the Brain, Kenneth Heilman explores the possible brain mechanisms which underlie creativity, by reviewing the existing evidence and putting forward new ideas. On the way, he discusses the relationships between creativity and intelligence, brain anatomy, neuropharmacology,…
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The Creative Mind

Myths and Mechanisms

By Margaret A. Boden.

Published September 2003

How is it possible to think new thoughts? What is creativity and can science explain it? And just how did Coleridge dream up the creatures of The Ancient Mariner? When The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms was first published, Margaret A. Boden's bold and provocative exploration of creativity…
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Adaption-Innovation

In the Context of Diversity and Change

By M.J. Kirton.

Published July 2003

Adaption-Innovation is a timely and comprehensive text written for anyone who wants to know more about dealing with problem solving, thinking style, creativity and team dynamics. In an age when teams have become critical to successful problem solving, Adaption-Innovation (A-I) theory…
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Understanding Child Development

By Sara Meadows.

Published July 1986