Creativity and innovation are frequently mentioned as key 21st-century
skills for career and life success. Indeed, recent research provides
evidence that the jobs of the future will increasingly require the
ability to bring creative solutions to complex problems. And creativity
is often the spice of life, that little extra something that makes the
mundane into the interesting, making our routines into fresh new
approaches to our daily lives. Over the past quarter century, our
understanding of creativity has advanced significantly-we know more
about what it is (and isn't), we better understand how to foster it, and
we have deeper, more complex knowledge about how it relates to
intelligence, leadership, personality, and other constructs. This book
brings together some of the world's best thinkers and researchers on
creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship to provide a comprehensive
but highly readable overview of these exciting, important topics.