"Migs Damiani has come up with a winner. Here is a book you can open to almost any page and get useful information. You can spend a few minutes reading a chapter and get some profound thinking and solid advice. Creative Leadership gives specific, clear-cut directions not just for those who are in leadership positions, but those who want to be more, do more, and have more. He ties it all together in an interesting and informative way, and hits major points with bullet-like precision, effectively using "nuggets" of information that you can use in your personal, family, and business life."
"Migs Damiani has come up with a winner. Here is a book you can open to almost any page and get useful information. You can spend a few minutes reading a chapter and get some profound thinking and solid advice. Creative Leadership gives specific, clear-cut directions not just for those who are in leadership positions, but those who want to be more, do more, and have more. He ties it all together in an interesting and informative way, and hits major points with bullet-like precision, effectively using "nuggets" of information that you can use in your personal, family, and business life."
A groundbreaking book that explores the theory and practice of leading in the creative workplace Leadership in the Creative Industries is a much-needed guide to the theory and practice of the creative leadership skills that are essential to lead effectively in creative fields. As the growth of creative industries continues to surge and “noncreative” businesses put increasing emphasis on creativity and innovation, this book offers a practical resource that explores how to confidently lead a workforce, creatively. In order to lead creative people it is essential to understand the creative process, creativity, and the range of variables that affect it. This book fills a gap in the literature by exploring the creative leadership practices that are solidly grounded in evidenced-based research. The author includes suggestions for overcoming the challenges associated with leading creative people, and puts to rest many of the current industry misconceptions about leading creatively. This vital resource: Is the first book that highlights the theory and practice of creative leadership skills in the creative industries Includes best practices of leading for creativity, and reveals what encourages creativity and what suppresses it Debunks commonly held myths about leading a creative workforce with evidence-based guidance Contains a wealth of helpful tips, visualizations, callouts from primary research, and anecdotes from recognized thought leaders, to highlight and underscore important principles. Written for academics and students of leadership, those working or aspiring to work in the creative industries, Leadership in the Creative Industries puts the focuses directly on theory and practice of creative leadership in creative fields.
There has never been a better time to study, practice, and experience creative leadership. In the fluid and turbulent economic and social environments of the 21st century, creative leadership has become a cardinal force in the creation and evolution of adaptive organizations. In the last two decades, organizational science has witnessed a rapid increase in the number of studies on the nature, skills, and processes of creative leadership. The resulting accumulated body of knowledge has remained for many years dispersed and fragmented across multiple strands of organizational research. This volume seeks to foster the cross-fertilization of scientific knowledge and insight by bringing together authoritative contributions from leading scholars whose work is located in different strands of creative leadership research. Creative Leadership: Contexts and Prospects builds upon a recently introduced multi-context framework that integrates metatheoretically three conceptualizations of creative leadership found in the extant literature: Facilitating employee creativity; Directing the materialization of a leader’s creative vision; and Integrating heterogeneous creative contributions. These three conceptualizations reflect essential differences in the enactment of creative leadership across various collaborative contexts of creative work, and they underlie the intellectual efforts of different research strands. The collection of chapters in Creative Leadership: Contexts and Prospects offers the latest thinking on creative leadership in facilitative, directive, and integrative contexts, and a stimulating set of ideas for crafting the next generation of nuanced theories and empirical studies in the field.
Leading the Workforce of the Future mandates new levels of self-awareness. As the workplace evolves in the direction of innovation, digitalization, and rapid change, leaders must follow suit in order to remain relevant and engaging to this multigenerational workforce. This book provides concrete advice and best practices on how to engage and retain top talent. It addresses several areas to focus on to future proof yourself and your business. In this book you will discover strategies to: Become the leader your team needs you to be. Accelerate talent development. Reshape your culture. Reskill your workforce. Create an innovation mindset. Succeed with purpose. The future is no longer some far-off destination; it is already here. Don't be caught off guard!
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ARE YOU READY TO TAKE YOUR INDUSTRY BY STORM? BY BLOWING AWAY THE BIGGEST BARRIERS TO CREATIVITY & INNOVATION IN YOUR BUSINESS? Stressing that there are no leadership or management guides or textbooks on managing creativity or creatives, internationally recognized and creatively acclaimed speaker and author Nelson Cabral, the world's only Triple Threat Creative Leadership Expert, has written the ultimate & definitive Creative Leadership Manifesto. With a Foreword by Laurie Toscano, VP at The Estée Lauder Companies Inc., The Creative Storm inspires readers to face a journey to find their true leadership identity by unleashing their 9 Forces Of Creative Leadership(TM). Today, many companies are missing that special spark that made them such a phenomenon when they started. That missing spark is creativity. These companies & CEOs face a severe shortage of leaders & managers who have the capacity to be creative. More importantly, they lack the processes and leadership & management style needed to unearth the highest levels of creativity in their people and lead teams towards innovation. A recent global CEO Study by IBM had CEOs ranking creativity as the most important leadership quality in leaders & managers at all levels. Creativity is now the most critical skill requirement for leaders navigating today's complex business environment. Creativity is what gives your company the business edge it needs. You make this happen by igniting Creative Leadership, the "Next Big Thing" in leadership. It's the leadership style of today, right now. The modern leader is embracing it, future organizational cultures are adopting it. And the Creative Leader is becoming the driver for an organization's talent development. As a result of the digital transformation, Creative Leadership is becoming the most sought-after management style in all industries. In his new book, The Creative Storm, award-winning speaker and author Nelson Cabral challenges conventional leadership practices and shares proven management philosophies to help you build & maintain a high performance culture. He shares with readers his management principles, leadership approaches and innovation strategies from decades worth of world-class, market-proven, top-tier, senior strategic creative leadership experience. The Creative Storm reveals CABRAL's 9 Forces Of Creative Leadership(TM) as the key to maximizing a leader's effectiveness in driving profitability through superior levels of performance and innovations. He believes innovation requires stimulation and collaboration, and you, as the leader, have the responsibility to unleash a creative storm in your team - to BE THE EYE OF THE STORM, BE A BARRIER BREAKER. The Creative Storm is a hardcore, high-content, high-interaction business book laced with humor and actionable creative leadership tools and strategies for maximum value. With exercises, tips, worksheets, case studies and quizzes, you will not only be able to assess your own abilities as a Creative Leader, but immediately focus on areas you need to improve - so you can immediately become more effective in managing creativity for the highest levels of innovation. Chances are you are sitting on a goldmine. It is vital your management approaches unearth the hidden potential of today's talent in order to increase creative capacity and deliver bottom-line results. If your organization or business is dealing with evolving work environments, complex business situations and accelerating global markets, then The Creative Storm is perfect to bring you cutting-edge approaches to leadership, talent management and innovation. Each of us holds an incredible creative force inside - one so powerful, that once released, a world of thought & wonder never before imagined is realized. In The Creative Storm, CABRAL teaches you how to unleash those creative forces in order to shape the future you w
