Insight
Encouraging AHA! Moments for Organizational Success
1st Edition
Published on 5. May 2010
256 pages
978-0-313-36644-4 (ISBN)
Description
An expert shows how to cultivate "aha" moments-flashes of insight-that lead to business innovation and personal success.
Insight: Encouraging Aha! Moments for Organizational Success helps individuals and organizations create the conditions that lay the groundwork for the distinct "Aha!" instances of insight-when connections between different pieces of information are revealed and ideas come together in ways that have never existed before.
Insight examines three stages of the Aha! experience, from the early confusion and chaos of "too much information," to how people organize and try out what they learn, to the "Aha!" moment itself. It then examines techniques people use to spark the creative aha experience-techniques that will work in a private business, education, government, nonprofit, and any other organizational setting. The book is based on interviews with over 100 people of all ages, backgrounds, and professions-from software developers to dancers, from detectives to football coaches-as well as the latest research results from management, psychology, and neuroscience studies about the workings of the brain in creative situations.
Insight: Encouraging Aha! Moments for Organizational Success helps individuals and organizations create the conditions that lay the groundwork for the distinct "Aha!" instances of insight-when connections between different pieces of information are revealed and ideas come together in ways that have never existed before.
Insight examines three stages of the Aha! experience, from the early confusion and chaos of "too much information," to how people organize and try out what they learn, to the "Aha!" moment itself. It then examines techniques people use to spark the creative aha experience-techniques that will work in a private business, education, government, nonprofit, and any other organizational setting. The book is based on interviews with over 100 people of all ages, backgrounds, and professions-from software developers to dancers, from detectives to football coaches-as well as the latest research results from management, psychology, and neuroscience studies about the workings of the brain in creative situations.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Interest Age: From 7 to 17 years
Illustrations
17 bw illus
ISBN-13
978-0-313-36644-4 (9780313366444)
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Book
05/2010
Praeger Publishers Inc
€58.60
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Person
Nancy K. Napier, PhD, is a professor of international business and executive director of the Centre for Creativity and Innovation in the College of Business and Economics at Boise State University, Boise, ID.
