Creativity Books

Here is our primary recommendation for a book on the role of creativity in leadership. This is an essential book for creative leadership today. It is available in hard and soft-cover. Further on we provide recommendations for creativity and innovation training and product innovation.

Creative Leadership: Skills That Drive Change demonstrates how creative thinking is an essential element of leadership, especially when bringing about change. In this engaging book, authors Dr. Gerard J. Puccio, Mary C. Murdock, and Marie Mance provide a unique combination of conceptual arguments, practical principles, and proven tools to enhance future leaders’ effectiveness in creating and managing change.

Key Features:

	Intimately connects leadership and creativity: Leadership is now characterized as the catalyst for change, while creative thinking is the process that leads to change. This is the first book to make an explicit and elaborate conceptual link between creativity and leadership.
	Utilizes the Creative Problem Solving process: This book explores the more than 50 years of Creative Problem Solving (CPS) research and application. While other books focus on creative thinking and CPS, this is the first to offer a philosophical position that is then followed up with specific principles and procedures that leaders can employ to deliberately enhance their effectiveness in creating and managing change.
	Promotes “deliberate creativity”: The authors are all faculty at the International Center for Studies in Creativity, Buffalo State—State University of New York, internationally renowned as a leading authority on the topic of Creative Problem Solving. Their rich experience encourages students to take a proactive approach toward the production of novel and useful ideas that address a predicament or opportunity.

These four books are highly recommend for creativity training. Use them to spice up and enhance any session that could benefit from creativity.

Here are four useful resources we recommend on innovation and creativity:

KnowBrainer

Innovation & Creativity Tool

FlashBrainer eTool
Innovation & Creativity Software

Learn Advanced Product Development techniques from an expert in creativity:

Steven C. Martin is one of fewer than 300 people in the world to have a Master of Science degree in Creativity. He is a member of the adjunct faculty of the International Center for Studies in Creativity at the State University of New York College at Buffalo. He is a patented inventor and creativity expert who has taught widely in a broad range of settings.

We teach creativity and innovation onsite in courses ranging from hours to one week. These high-impact hands-on creativity sessions are guaranteed to teach you how to be more creative and innovative. For public courses use this link to our collaboration partner: Innovation & Creativity Workshop 2-Day

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