Creative Management ^{2nd Ed.}

Following on from its highly sucessful predecessor, the new edition of Creative Management further explores the roots of creative perception at work, in the context of rapidly changing technologies and new opportunities for knowledge management.

The readings present distinguished international contributors who collectively represent a new approach to management. Jane Henry brings these eminent authors together to introduce to the reader essential works on cognition, creativity, style, learning, development and sustainability – all written at an accessible and engaging level.

Creative Management 2^nd Edition has a distinctly international flavour. Whilst giving a clear conceptual overview and perspective for the topics discussed, it also makes clear their practical implications. It will be widely adopted on management courses, and is particularly relevant to courses on creative management, innovation, knowledge management, organizaqtional behaviour, and organizational and business psychology courses.

• Part 1: Perception
• Section A: Creativity
1. How to Kill creativity
   Teresa Amabile
2. A Systems Perspective on Creativity
   Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi
• Section B: Cognition
1. The Innovative Mind: Becoming Smarter by Thinking Less
   Guy Claxton
2. Creativity and Problem Solving
   Geir Kaufmann
3. Organizational Knowledge Creation
   Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi
• Section C: Perception
1. Ten Ideas to Rile Everyone Who Cares About Management
   Henry Mintzberg
2. The Theory Behind the Practice
   Gareth Morgan
3. Metaphor and the Evolution of the Living Organization
   Gerrit Broekstra
• Part 2: Style
• Section D: Emotion
1. What Makes a Leader?
   Daniel Goleman
2. Psychodynamics, Psychoanalysis and Organizations
   Yiannis Gabriel
• Section E: Style
1. State of the Art: Personality
   Sarah Hampson
2. The Big Five versus the Myers-Briggs
   Rowan Bayne
3. Adaptors and Innovators: Why New Initiatives Get Blocked
   Michael J. Kirton
• Section F: Learning
1. Learning and Change Through Action Research
   Peter Reason
2. Empowerment: The Emperor's New Clothes
   Chris Argyris
3. Informal Networks: The Company Behind the Chart
   David Krackhardt and Jeffrey R. Hanson
• Part 3: Development
• Section G: Culture
1. Why My Former Employees Still Work For Me
   Ricardo Semler
2. Technology, Networks and Social Capital
   Francis Fukuyama
• Section H: Responsibility
1. The Citizen Company
   Charles Handy
2. From Spare Change to Real Change
   Rosabeth Moss Kanter
• Section I: Sustainability
1. A Road Map for Natural Capitalism
   Amory B. Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins and Paul Hawken
2. Monocultures of the Mind
   Vandana Shiva

School literature in a second edition? In reality, it is a whole new book that only has the title, editor and one article in common with the first edition! This edition is more geared towards the MBA students at OUBS than to an average reader. Be warned, even though Dr. Henry is good at picking articles, it is hard to make sense of the whole if you don't have an OUBS backgrund.

Read it as a complement to the first edition.