  | ||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||
 Online Press Kit Contact Lynne |
|
|
|
Breakthrough Creativity: Achieving Top Performance Using the Eight Creative Talents
What others are saying about Breakthrough Creativity:
From: Business Book Review, a review service
that "selects, summarizes, and reviews only the best business books you should read but have
no time to read:"
"Unfortunately, many leaders and managers have no idea how to tap into the great wealth of
creativity that exists in the workplace.... And the reasons is of course, that most people
only understand the myths built up around creativity and the creative individual, with no
clue as to its pragmatic realities. Thus, Levesque brings practical understanding to what
she perceives to be a skill, rather than a 'gift from the gods,' and provides management
development professionals, managers, coaches, and consultants with the practical tools they
can use to operationalize these skills.
"Levesque builds on her extensive studies of how top executives actually use their creativity
to take the information contained in the MBTIO out of the purely psychological realm and make
it available to a wide range of readers..... The author's careful, thoughtful summaries and
descriptions make the eight creative talents understandable and allow readers to begin
determining dominant and auxiliary talents for themselves, build effective teams from a
viable mix of diverse 'creative' talents, and communicate successfully with all kinds of
personality types. In today's business world, where creative capital is just as important
and sought after as any other kind, knowing how creativity manifests itself is essential for
success.
"With its engaging description of different personality types and relationships to creativity,
Breakthrough Creativity is a quick and compelling read."
"Breakthrough Creativity may be the most comprehensive and useful volume
ever written on this fascinating subject.... It might just unlock the possibilities that
Buckminster Fuller once suggested would result in a world of four billion billionaires!"
-- Andrew J. Kaslow, Senior Vice President, People Development, AOL Time Warner, USA.
"An important book for all leaders of the 21st century in any country
around the globe."
-- Kurt Brandenberger, Head of Corporate Transformation, Von Roll Group, Switzerland.
"For present and future leaders, Levesque's book reflects a refreshing
new direction for facing
today's challenging workforce issues. It should be part of every executive's thought process..."
-- Nicki Brown, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Wilton Bank, USA.
"Levesque shows that each of us has creative talents and that
creativity is diverse in its
expression. Easy to read, this book will benefit individuals and teams seeking to create
and innovate."
-- Theodora Noble and Peter Bartos, Forge Connexions, Pty Ltd, Australia, coauthors of
"Positioning Yourself for Career Success."
"One of the few books I have read on the subject that provides real practical insights
and tools. It really does address the issue of business and workplace demands to produce
new and different results, thus generating that elusive thing called competitive advantage!"
-- Phillip Walker, Training and Development Manager, Zeneca Agrochemicals PLC, England.
"This is a remarkable tool for building high-performing, highly creative teams, for team
members, for managers to nurture and develop each personality type, and for the individual
to remove obstacles to creativity and become his or her most innovative self."
-- Joseph M. Slye, Executive Consultant, Federal Consulting Group, USA.
"Breakthrough Creativity ... is recommended reading for practicing managers and for coaches
and consultants involved in developing people and in building creatively productive teams."
-- David M. Horth, Senior Program Associate, Center for Creative Leadership, USA; coauthor
of "Leading Creatively."
It takes more than just "thinking outside the box" to build a flexible, adaptive organization that will survive competitive battles, grow and prosper, and provide the environment that attracts and keeps its best talent. Based on research in personality, innovation, and creativity, as well as the author's experience in business, the book describes eight distinct creative talents. People of each talent have a unique way of looking at challenges, collecting data, and generating creative solutions. Breakthrough Creativity describes in individual chapters how each talent works, how each contributes to the creative process, and how each can improve decision making, team building, and strategic planning and thinking. It also provides tips for those working with each talent for optimizing their creative contributions. The book brings to life the stories and rich experiences of working individuals around the world to help readers discover their own creative talents and use them to further their professional and personal lives.
Foreword Part One: Understanding Varieties of Creativity.
Chapter 2. Discovering your Creative Talents Part Two: THE EIGHT CREATIVE TALENTS
Chapter 4. The Navigator Chapter 5. The Explorer Chapter 6. The Visionary Chapter 7. The Pilot Chapter 8. The Inventor Chapter 9. The Harmonizer Chapter 10. The Poet Part Three: Managing Yourself and Others to Enhance Creativity
Chapter 12. Developing Your Personal Plan
Endnotes
| ||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||
 Top of page |
 | |||||||||||||
