This book explores the relationship between the management of creativity and creative approaches to management.
- Challenges the stereotypical opposition between ‘creatives’ and ‘suits’.
- Draws on the work of management theorists such as Mintzberg and Porter and creativity theorists such as Amabile and Boden.
- Draws on the practical experience of individuals working in the creative industries.
- Looks at the place of creative organisations and creative business management in a new creative economy, based on ideas, images and information.
Foreword.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction: Creativity and the Creative Industries.
1. Defining Creativity.
A Tale of Two Corridors.
What Is Creativity?.
What Creativity Is Not.
Case Study: A Vision in a Dream?.
Mapping the Great Divide: From Education to the Workplace.
The Mythology of Genius.
Case Study: The Genius and the Water-carrier.
False Profits: The Creative Industries.
2. From Individuals to Processes: Creative Teams and Innovation.
From Individuals to Teams.
Innovation and Teams.
Beyond Specialization: Creative Work in the Creative Industries.
Playing Many Parts: Creative Roles in the Creative Industries.
Case Study: Repositioning Creativity in Advertising.
Growing the Creative Team: Familiarization or Specialization?.
Managing the Creative Team.
Creative Tension and the Need for Trust.
Creative Teamsló,