Breakthrough Creativity: Achieving Top Performance Using the Eight Creative Talents

by Lynne C. Leveque

Overview

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 the 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780891062684
Publisher:	Quercus
Publication date:	10/31/2011
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Lynne C. Levesque, Ed.D. is an international consultant, trainer, and author. Combining over 20 years of business experience with extensive academic research and study in creativity, organization development, and personality type theory, she advises her clients on ways to manage change and build more agile, innovative organizations.

What People are Saying About This

Frances C. Engoron

Frances C. Engoron, U.S. Leader, Learning and Education, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Breakthrough Creativity illuminates an essential skill for the New Economy, and provides practical advice, methods, and tools for optimizing creativity in the workplace. I especially like the emphasis on playing to one’s strengths and creating teams with complementary talents for creativity.

Andrew J. Kaslow

Andrew J. Kaslow, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, People Development, AOL Time Warner
As the chief human resources executive of AOL Time Warner, a leading Internet-age company that lists Creativity as one of its seven core values, I am especially excited about the potential of using this breakthrough book to help operationalize this essential value in our enterprise of 80,000 associates worldwide, and I am convinced that other HR and management development professionals and consultants will find it very beneficial.

Editorial Reviews

The Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) has become quite popular as a team-building tool. Many books have been written on the use of types at work, in relationships, and even in church. Levesque, who has her Ed.D. in creativity, serviceably merges the study of types with the study of creativity. She describes eight creative talents--four of which are most concerned with data-collecting and four of which are most concerned with decision-making. Each MBTI type possesses a dominant creative talent and an auxiliary talent. For each type, the author outlines the dominant features and how creativity can be maximized or inhibited. Finally, Levesque considers ways of effectively using types in business settings. Given the current popularity of type-talk, public libraries should consider purchasing. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

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