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- Cover
- Praise for In Your Creative Element
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- About the author
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Why I wrote this book and how to use it
- The periodic table of creative elements
- New radicals and creative thinking in the NHS
- The structure of the book and how to read it
- 01 Definitions
- Creative elements
- What is creativity?
- Creativity and innovation – one and the same?
- Novelty
- Idea
- Surprise
- Value
- Knowledge and evaluation
- Why defining creativity matters for your business
- The unknown
- Serendipity
- Art and science
- 02 The values of creative people
- Creative elements
- Creativity
- Curiosity
- Freedom
- Courage
- Fun
- Grit
- 03 The characteristics of creative people
- Creative elements
- Openness
- Ego
- Rebellion
- Self-belief
- Motivation
- Imagination and vision
- Vision
- Discipline
- Passion
- Failure
- 04 The creative mind
- Creative elements
- The unconscious mind
- The relaxed mind
- The wandering mind
- The associating mind
- Emotion
- Logic
- The analytical mind
- The prolific mind
- The improvising mind
- The insightful mind
- 05 Culture
- Creative elements
- Leadership
- Trust
- Time
- Idea support
- Debate
- Risk-taking
- Collaboration
- Environment
- 06 Purpose
- Creative elements
- Love and Joy
- Money
- Social good
- The B Corporation movement
- Culture
- 07 The creative process
- Creative elements
- Preparation
- Divergent and convergent thinking
- Design thinking
- Problem and question
- Brief
- Data
- Strategy
- Hunch
- Incubation
- Illumination and idea
- Pitch
- 08 The creative toolkit
- Tackling the blank page
- Problem-finding tools
- Idea-finding tools
- Solution-finding tools
- Technology and the future
- 09 Putting it all together
- The three elements you can’t ignore in order to develop your individual creativity
- The three elements you can’t ignore in order to develop team creativity
- The six elements you can’t ignore in order to develop organizational creativity – for leaders, management and HR teams
- Developing organizational creativity
- Author’s note
- Picture credits
- References
- Index
- Copyright