Handbook for Creative Team Leaders

Tudor Rickards is Professor of Creativity and Organizational Change at Manchester Business School. Following a career in product research and development at Unilever he joined the Business School, where he directs the Creativity Research Unit. He is Alex Osborn Visiting Professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Kiel. His awards include the Partnership Trust Prize for teaching creativity (1985). He has written numerous books and articles, notably Creativity and Problem Solving at Work, also published by Gower. Susan Moger is a Research Fellow at Manchester Business School, working in the area of creative problem solving and innovation management. She has designed and delivered product development and innovation training programmes in the petrochemical, brewing, food, pharmaceutical and airline industries. Her particular current interest is in the management of innovation within supply networks. Both authors have taught and researched extensively around the world on creativity and innovation. They are joint editors of the journal Creativity and Innovation Management.

• Contents: Foreword by Fran Cotton. Part I Creative Teams in Principle: An anatomy of teams; Building creative teams - 'The genius of the and'; Enhancing team creativity: The MPIA system. Part II Creative Teams in Practice: From messes to mind-maps; Breakthrough perspectives; Putting action into ideas and ideas into action. Part III Creative Teams in Action: Innovation teams in action; Creative networks in action; Creative teams in action; Bibliography; Index.

' ... provides a good grounding in the principles of teamwork.' Management Consultancy 'The text is clear, concise, well referenced, and improved by case studies, quizzes, puzzles and other visual material ... It is recommended to Journal readers already in, or aspiring to similar roles, as part of their personal development.' British Journal of Healthcare Computing 'Practising this system will help teams to recognise potential blocking situations and how to deal with these effectively.' Skills and Enterprise Update 'What the authors of this ground-breaking book offer is nothing less than a system for achieving peak performance ... Anyone involved in teamworking would profit from a close study of the Handbook.' Engineering Designer 'Valuable for all working in teams, as well as other HRD practitioners and consultants.' Long Range Planning, October 1999