March 2015
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
8h 4m
English
Content preview from The Four Lenses of Innovation: A Power Tool for Creative Thinking
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Part One: The Mind of the Innovator
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2. Weihua Niu and Robert J. Sternberg, “The Philosophical Roots of Western and Eastern Conceptions of Creativity,” Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 26 (2006): 18–38, doi:10.1037/h0091265.
3. David S. Landes, The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present (New York: Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, 1969), 24.
4. W. W. Tarn, “The Hellenistic Ruler-Cult and the Daemon,” The Journal of Hellenic Studies 48, no. 2 (1928): 206–19.
5. Władysław Tatarkiewicz, A History of Six Ideas: An Essay in Aesthetics, trans. from the Polish by Christopher Kasparek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1980.
6. Frans Johansson, The Medici Effect: Breakthrough Insights at the Intersection of Ideas, Concepts and Cultures (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2004), 3.
2. Harnessing Trends
7. Petrarch (1367), “Apologia cuiusdam anonymi Galli calumnias” (“Defence against the calumnies of an anonymous Frenchman”), 1367, in Opera Omnia (Basel, 1554), 1195. This quotation comes from the English translation of Mommsen’s article, where the source is given in a footnote. Cf. also D. Marsh, ed., Invectives (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003), 457.
8. Petrarch (1343), Africa, IX, 451–7. This quotation comes from the English translation ...
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