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Howard Gardner's classic book Multiple Intelligences exploded the myth that intelligence can be measured along a single dimension. Now Lynne Levesque shows that creativity, like intelligences, exists in a variety of forms, and demonstrates that high-performance organizations need to make use of creativity in all its dimensions. It takes more than just "thinking outside the box" to build a flexible, adaptive organization that will survive competitive battles, grow and prosper, and provide the environment that attracts and keeps its best talent.
On the basis of her research in personality, innovation and creativity, as well as her experience helping top executives achieve their full potential, Levesque describes eight distinct creative talents. People of each talent have a unique way of looking at challenges, collecting data and generating creative solutions.
Breakthrough Creativity describes in individual chapters how each talent works, how each contributes to the creative process and how each can improve decision making, team building and strategic planning and thinking. Breakthrough Creativity brings to life the stories and rich experiences of working individuals around the world to help readers discover their own creative talents and use them to further their professional and personal lives.
Contents
Foreword
Preface
About the Author
Part 1: Understanding Varieties of Creativity
1 How Are You Creative?
2 Discovering Your Creative Talents
Part 2: The Eight Creative Talents
3 The Adventurer
4 The Navigator
5 The Explorer
6 The Visionary
7 The Pilot
8 The Inventor
9 The Harmonizer
10 The Poet
Part 3: Managing Yourself and Others to Enhance Creativity
11 Strengthening Creativity in Teams
12 Developing Your Personal Action Plan
Endnotes
Resources
Bibliography
Index
Lynne brings over 30 years of experience in business and education to her international consulting, coaching, and research practice. She spent over 16 years in management, first with Bank of America in San Francisco, CA, and then with Shawmut Bank (now Bank of America) in Hartford, CT. Her areas of responsibility have included strategic planning, information technology management, organizational development, and training. Since receiving a doctorate for her studies of creativity among top business leaders, Lynne has authored "Breakthrough Creativity: Achieving Top Performance Using the Eight Creative Talents” and the “Breakthrough Creativity Profile.”
Now, combining her business experience with several years of research in leadership, change management and new business creation at Harvard Business School, Lynne works with a variety of clients to help their leaders and organizations become more strategic, productive, and creative. Lynne has authored and co-authored several articles and Harvard Business School cases on critical management topics, including “The Multiunit Enterprise” (Harvard Business Review, June, 2008), “Meeting the Challenge of Corporate Entrepreneurship” (Harvard Business Review, October, 2006) and “The Art of Making Change Initiatives Stick” (Sloan Management Review, Summer, 2005). Lynne also serves as a Graduate Lecturer at Northeastern University.
Lynne received her BA in Russian Studies from Mount Holyoke College, an MBA in Finance from the University of California at Berkeley, and an Ed.D. in Creativity from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She is a member of the Academy of Management and the International Leadership Association.
For additional information, see www.breakthroughcreativity.com.