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Adaption-Innovation: In the Context of Diversity and Change

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This was purchased as a text for a course on creativity and problem solving. Kirton's main premise is that we are ALL creative, just in different ways. Worth reading even if you don't have to take a course on problem solving.

There is great insight in this book on how people solve problems. Dr. Kirton has many years of research and lots of case studies (real life examples) of why all his information holds true. While the text can be a bit challenging, for non-fiction this is a good read. After years of required reading for my psych degree, this proved to be much more readable than most.

This is an excellent scholarly resource for those with a keen interest in Kriton's Adaption-Innovation thoery and measure. The main criticism is that the book takes way too many liberties with the work of other scholars - and it seems that the main reason for many of the distortions is to try to make Kirton's theory even more acceptable. It is a useful theory without needing to go to those lenghts.