Approaching Leadership Development as a process of learning to invoke followership for strategic and ethical insights
a basic description of our insight based model for creativity and some of its implications
an overview of the sources of ideas
The following articles, mostly consisting of two pages, have been developed for use in our training sessions and in university courses in creativity, innovation, and facilitation. They are copyrighted property of The Co-Creativity Institute but you are welcome to make fair use copies for your own use and to share with colleagues as long as you keep the entire document intact, including our address information. Please contact us if you would like to make more copies for another purpose, such as a training class.
| Developing Deliberate Leadership Approaching Leadership Development as a process of learning to invoke followership for strategic and ethical insights |
| Unappreciated AHA: Why No One Listens to your Creative
Ideas. a basic description of our insight based model for creativity and some of its implications |
| A Typology of AHA's an overview of the sources of ideas |
| Teamwork Goes Both Ways a clearer concept of teamwork and when it is useful |
| Brainstorming a review of the dynamics and rules of this frequently misapplied tool |
| What Do You Really Want to Do? Using the "black box" or "function" approach to accelerate insight and creativity |
| Creative Problem Solving a proven plan of phase steps to guide creative efforts |
| Styles and Creativity Relating Kolb's learning styles to the facilitated steps of deliberate creativity |
| Cross Cultural Teamwork Building teams across cultural differences |
| Culture and Deliberate Team Creativity
Hofstede's Numbers Relating Hofstede's cultural styles to the facilitated steps of deliberate creativity |
| Guilford's Structure of the Intellect A basic description of an approach to understanding intelligence and creativity |
| The Knowledge Creating Cycle Nonaka's description of the elements and phases of great product design |
| Ethics and Values Based Management A Strategic Look at the Ethics Issues Faced by Managers |
| Elephants and Coconuts: An Approach to Understanding Complex Topics |
| Levels of Bureaucracy Elliott Jaques' levels of complexity of thinking |
| External Modeling The critical usefulness of external models in complex thinking and creativity |
| Fuzzy Logic and the Decision Matrix A quick exploration of fuzzy logic and its use in the criteria decision matrix. |
| Visualization and Imagery Basic methods for increasing your ability to develop mental imagery |
| What is Value Engineering An introduction to this widely used approach |
| Doing Value Engineering A quick guide to applying this approach |