The Managers Pocket Guide to Creativity (Manager's Pocket Guide Series) [Paperback]

Alexander Hiam (Author), Mary George (Editor), Eileen Klockars (Designer)

Book Description

Series: Manager's Pocket Guide Series | Publication Date: February 1999

Is there a secret to creativity? Can a simple change in the way we think about problems dramatically cut the cycle time for generating state-of-the-art solutions? Yes! And this book will show you how. It presents practical tools and suggestions for creative thinking while never losing touch with the essential components of the process: its looseness, its freedom, its risk-taking.

You'll learn how the elements of creative thinking-the methods that help us get "un-stuck"-can themselves be creative. What better way to drive home the power of the creative thought process than to go out on a limb and be creative about creativity!

Includes:

Personal Creativity Assessment
Checklist of common workplace behaviors that block creativity
A realistic, useful model of the creative thought process
Creative thinking methods-process tools that help you "do" creative thinking
Training Transfer Assessment

Editorial Reviews

Language Notes

Text: English

About the Author

Alexander Hiam brings creativity skills to his work as a consultant, trainer, and facilitator for clients such as Kellogg, The Vermont Country Store, GMAC, and Spalding. He is a frequent speaker on the role of creativity in marketing, entrepreneurship, new product development, win-win negotiations, and leadership. He holds degrees from Harvard College and University of California, Berkeley and has run an independent consulting firm based in Amherst, MA for more than a decade. His other publications include The Portable Conference on Change Management, Flex Style Negotiating (both from HRD Press), The Portable MBA in Marketing (Wiley), Marketing for Dummies (IDG), and The Entrepreneur's Complete Sourcebook (Prentice Hall).

Product Details

• Paperback: 220 pages
• Publisher: HRD Press (February 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0874254361
• ISBN-13: 978-0874254365
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 4.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,259,436 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Hiam has written extensively on business topics ranging from leadership and conflict management to marketing. He is an award-winning author of more than 20 books, including: Vest Pocket CEO, Adventure Careers, Marketing For Dummies, Closing the Quality Gap, and The Manager's Pocket Guide to Creativity.

His newest work, Business Innovation for Dummies (June 2010, Wiley), is a how-to guide that offers practical techniques for stimulating imagination and developing ideas into successful innovations.

When he's not writing, Hiam is a sought-after speaker on innovation, creativity and leadership. Thousands of managers - including Fortune 500 and government leaders - have attended his workshops and idea-generation retreats, and relied on his guides: Creativity By Design, Creative Roles Analysis, and The Entrepreneur's Complete Handbook.

Hiam holds a B.A. from Harvard College in anthropology and an MBA in marketing and strategic planning from the University of California, Berkeley. For more than 12 years, he has worked at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst Isenberg School of Management, with additional teaching posts at American International College and Western New England Collage.

Today, Hiam is a consultant to a diverse set of clientele. At the U.S. Coast Guard's Leadership and Management School, he provides assistance with curriculum design for leadership development. His leadership novella, The Starfish Files, is required reading for U.S. Coast Guard leaders. Hiam also provides leadership training to nonprofit and government groups, extending his well-honed innovation principles beyond the private sector for clients ranging from the U.S. Army and U.S. Senate to the City of New York. In the business arena, Hiam's creativity exercises are used by top advertising agencies to help their staff be more open to fresh ideas.

His educational publishing company, Trainer's Spectrum (www.trainersspectrum.com), features assessments, workshops, books, and learning games for team building, leadership, conflict management and other employee development programs. He is also the developer of the Dealing With Conflict Instrument and the Strategic Leadership Type Indicator. His personal Web site is at www.alexhiam.com.

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This was a wonderful book to learn how to expand my creativity. It has some great ideas on corporate creativity and different ways to look at what creativity is. The assessments and model were very useful.