Managing creative people lessons in leadership for the ideas economy

A clash between the ideology of growth and the growth of ideas, between control and creativity, between measurement and the immeasurable, between predictability and the fickle muses of inspiration in engulfing our boardrooms. . In this scathing swipe at the institutionalised idiocy that is stifling...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Torr, Gordon
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester, England Wiley 2008
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Collection: O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-294) and index
  • I. THE CREATIVE INDIVIDUAL
  • The Day the World Ran out of Ideas
  • The Problem with Creative People
  • Two Guys in a Garage
  • 21st Century Snake-Oil
  • The Biology of Inspiration
  • The Creative Personality
  • The Survival of the Weirdest
  • Towards a Formula for Genius
  • The Barbel and the Breadboard
  • II. THE CREATIVE ORGANISATION
  • Introduction to PART II
  • The Muse's Ransom
  • Poison in the Water Cooler
  • Podsnaps and Ponytails
  • Structures and Strictures
  • Place Matters
  • The Road to Exit Five
  • The Maze
  • The Guardians of the Maze
  • The New Patronage