Managing Creativity and Innovation

For Further Reading

Barrett, Derm. The Paradox Process. New York: AMACOM, 1997. Paradoxical thinking comprises three essential skills: the ability to break free from conventional thought patterns, the ability to identify opposites and juxtapose them, and the ability to integrate opposites to form new solutions. This book describes these skills and also provides techniques for improving each of them.

Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention. New York: HarperCollins, 1996. Csikszentmihalyi focuses on the creativity of exceptional people—the paradoxical traits they possess and the unique aspects of their development over the life cycle—but he also suggests ways for enhancing creativity in everyday ...