Hothouse Effect

Intensify Creativity in Your Organization Using Secrets from History's Most Innovative Communities

Barton Kunstler

261 pages, parution le 16/03/2004

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Résumé

What can history's most creative cultures teach us about business? A lot.

Throughout history, across many centuries and an enormous range of cultures, certain communities have stood out as bastions of creativity and intellectual progress. From ancient Athens to the vibrant American jazz scene of the 20th century, these seemingly disparate enclaves actually share a set of defining characteristics that hold considerable relevance for modern businesses.

The Hothouse Effect examines the dynamics of several such communities, or creative hothouses, and identifies the factors that drove their unusual creative fervor. Case studies of contemporary businesses, plus interviews with executives, illustrate clearly how the nurturing of creative drive can lead directly to more innovative products, revolutionized processes, and dramatic improvements in results.

This valuable book also offers practical tools for assessing creativity in any organization, then implementing the results of the assessment toward building the creative hothouse effect that will drive innovation, productivity, and results well into the future.

L'auteur - Barton Kunstler

Barton Kunstler (Wellesley, MA) is a professor and program director at the Lesley University School of Management. He writes A Futurist View, a biweekly column for Metrowest Daily News.

Sommaire

Introduction
The Hothouse Effect
The Four Dimensions of the Hothouse Effect
The First Dimension: Values/Mission
Athens
A High-Tech Hothouse
The Second Dimension: Ideas/Exchange
"They invented the modern world"
Four Entrepreneurial Innovators
The Third Dimension: Perception/Learning
The Bauhaus
A Contemporary Bauhaus in Bologna
The Fourth Dimension: Social/Play
Paris
Einstein and Friends: Re-Creating the Universe
Jazz-"It's all in there"
Creative Visions in Research and Manufacturing
CHAI-T: The Creative Hothouse Assessment Instrument Tablet
The Hothouse Challenge!
Conclusion

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Amacom
Auteur(s)	Barton Kunstler
Parution	16/03/2004
Nb. de pages	261
Format	16 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	550g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780814407691
ISBN13	978-0-8144-0769-1