TY - BOOK AU - Torr,Gordon TI - Managing creative people: lessons in leadership for the ideas economy SN - 9780470772751 AV - HD53 .T67 2008eb U1 - 658.3/14 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Chichester, England, Hoboken, NJ PB - Wiley KW - Creative ability in business KW - Management KW - Créativité dans les affaires KW - Gestion KW - management KW - aat KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS KW - Workplace Culture KW - bisacsh KW - Human Resources & Personnel Management KW - fast KW - Leiderschap KW - gtt KW - Creativiteit KW - ram KW - Succès dans les affaires KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-294) and index; I. THE CREATIVE INDIVIDUAL -- The Day the World Ran out of Ideas -- The Problem with Creative People -- Two Guys in a Garage -- 21st Century Snake-Oil -- The Biology of Inspiration -- The Creative Personality -- The Survival of the Weirdest -- Towards a Formula for Genius -- The Barbel and the Breadboard -- II. THE CREATIVE ORGANISATION -- Introduction to PART II -- The Muse's Ransom -- Poison in the Water Cooler -- Podsnaps and Ponytails -- Structures and Strictures -- Place Matters -- The Road to Exit Five -- The Maze -- The Guardians of the Maze -- The New Patronage N2 - A clash between the ideology of growth and the growth of ideas, between control and creativity, between measurement and the immeasurable, between predictability and the fickle muses of inspiration in engulfing our boardrooms. . In this scathing swipe at the institutionalised idiocy that is stifling creativity just at the time the world needs it most Gordon Torr draws from the leading lights of creativity research to demolish the myths that surround the generation of ideas in the modern organisation. . The curse of the brainstorm, the commoditisation of creative talent, the deskilling of t UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=323435 ER -