Fostering Creativity - Harvard Business School Press

Overview

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The latest volume in the series: Fostering Creativity

To survive in today's hypercompetitive climate, businesses must innovate constantly. Innovation hinges on creativity generating novel and useful ideas. By fostering creativity in your team, you help unleash your company's innovative powers. But this requires a disciplined process for leveraging employees' unique experiences, thinking styles, and expertise.

This book reveals powerful strategies for unlocking your team's creative energies. You'll find out how to:

Put the right individuals together for maximum creative potential
Systematically identify business problems that offer opportunities for innovative solutions
Master the delicate art of managing ""creative abrasion"" between team members who think differently
Establish a psychological and physical environment conducive to creativity
Move your team from brainstorming to selecting options to focus on