An expert shows how to cultivate "aha" moments—flashes of insight—that lead to business innovation and personal success. Insight: Encouraging Aha! Moments for Organizational Success helps individuals and organizations create the conditions that lay the groundwork for the distinct "Aha!" instances of insight—when connections between different pieces of information are revealed and ideas come together in ways that have never existed before. Insight examines three stages of the Aha! experience, from the early confusion and chaos of "too much information," to how people organize and try out what they learn, to the "Aha!" moment itself. It then examines techniques people use to spark the creative aha experience—techniques that will work in a private business, education, government, nonprofit, and any other organizational setting. The book is based on interviews with over 100 people of all ages, backgrounds, and professions—from software developers to dancers, from detectives to football coaches—as well as the latest research results from management, psychology, and neuroscience studies about the workings of the brain in creative situations.
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An expert shows how to cultivate "aha" moments-flashes of insight-that lead to business innovation and personal success.
"We live in an era where innovation and creativity have become buzzwords, hundreds of un-innovative articles and books are being published on these topics, and we are bombarded by academics and wannabe experts telling us we need to be more creative and innovative. Swimming strongly counter current, Napier has written a book that actually explains how to do it and, even more importantly, how to do it faster! Insight: Encouraging Aha! Moments for Organizational Success is without a doubt a deeply needed, rigorously researched, and iconoclastically written book which overflows with provocative ideas."
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An expert shows how to cultivate "aha" moments—flashes of insight—that lead to business innovation and personal success.
Includes over 100 interviews with people of diverse ages, jobs, organizations, and perspectives about how they encourage aha! experiences in themselves and others

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ISBN
9780313366437
Publisert
2010-05-05
Utgiver
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc; Praeger Publishers Inc
Vekt
510 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
256

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Nancy K. Napier, PhD, is a professor of international business and executive director of the Centre for Creativity and Innovation in the College of Business and Economics at Boise State University, Boise, ID.