The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work"Natalie Nixon's new book provides a fresh primer on how to cultivate creativity in the workplace.” —Nir Eyal, bestselling author of Hooked and Indistractable Too many people associate creativity solely with the arts, even though to be an incredible scientist, engineer, or entrepreneur requires immense creativity. And it's the key to developing breakthrough products and services. Natalie Nixon, a creativity strategist with a background in cultural anthropology, fashion, and service design, says that in the fourth industrial revolution a creativity leap is needed to bridge the gap that exists between the churn of work and the highly sought-after prize called innovation. Nixon says that since humans are hardwired to be creative, it is a competency anyone can develop. She shows that it balances wonder (awe, audacity, and curiosity) with rigor (discipline, skill-building, and attention to detail), and that inquiry, improvisation, and intuitionare the key practices that increase those capacities. Drawing on interviews with fifty-six people from diverse backgrounds—farming, law, plumbing, architecture, perfumery, medicine, education, technology, and more—she offers illuminating examples of how creativity manifests in every kind of work. Combining creativity tools and techniques with real-world stories of innovative people and businesses, this book is a provocation, an inspiration, and an invitation to unleash the innate creativity that lies within each of us. It offers a more dynamic and integrative way to adapt and innovate, one that allows us the freedom to access our full human selves. |
Contents
Create Like Your Life Depends on | |
Flow between Wonder and Rigor | |
Ask a Better Friggin Question | |
Leverage Organized Chaos | |
Other editions - View all
The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work Natalie Nixon No preview available - 2020 |
The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work ... Natalie Nixon No preview available - 2020 |
Common terms and phrases
abductive reasoning ability adapt ambiguity approach archetypes artists audacious augmented reality Autodesk bees Berrett-Koehler boundary spanning brain brand bricolage Bridgewater building challenge chaordic chaos CHAPTER cofounder collaboration colleagues complex system create creative competency CREATIVITY LEAP EXERCISE creativity quotient culture Dalio dance Dee Hock Digital diverse employees engine environment example experience explore fashion designer fashion thinking FedEx Express feel fourth industrial revolution Franklin Templeton Investments future Galit global hybrid ideas improvisation InBev industrial revolution innovation inquiry insights interview intuition jazz Jeff King Britt lead leaders listening Manoff musicians observed organizations perspective play practice problem-solving production radical transparency reframe remix requires Safiya share shift skills space Steelcase Steve Jobs story strategic things toggle between wonder too-big-to-fail tribe trust Vectorworks wicked problems wonder and rigor WonderRigor zoom Zumba