Gottlieb Guntern, systems scientist and psychiatrist, is an internationally acclaimed expert on creativity and leadership. His books have been translated into several languages. He is the author of The Spirit of Creativity: Basic Mechanisms of Creative Achievements (University Press of America), a systemic in-depth study of creative accomplishments. Guntern is the co-founder and president of the Board of Trustees of the International CREANDO Foundation on Creativity and Leadership.www.creando.org

• Preface 1992Preface 2012Chapter One:The Complexity of the Simple, the Simplicity of the ComplexThe Short Distance from Unbridled Excess to a Final RequiemThe Big Bang and the Evolution that FollowedThe Conflict between the Various Forms of EvolutionA Crisis Is an OpportunityQuestions and AnswersHypotheses and PostulatesChapter Two: The Real Meaning of Original Sin:The “Flail of Genesis” and the “Lyre of the Orphics”Ideas Are Not CognacSoap Bubbles and DogmasThe Flail of GenesisOn the Structural and Functional Evolution of the Human BrainThe Curse of One-Sided, Analytic-Dualistic ThinkingThe Lyre of the OrphicsPlato and the Cycle of MetamorphosisThe Legacy of the Occidental FathersChapter Three: Totemistic ThinkingThe Concept of a TotemTotemism and AnthropologyThe Various Aspects of Totemistic ThinkingThe Quintessence of Totemistic ThinkingChapter Four: In the Sign of the DinosaurWe will bury you!The Ballad of the Dinosaurs’ Sad FateThe Mental Dinosaurs’ Mania for DominanceThe Power Games of the Powerful: The Dino Look in Culture and the CityDoing Healthy Business with Patients: The Dino Look in Health CareMerger Fever: The Dino Look in the Economic SectorRabbit Hutches and Avalanche Barriers: The Dino Look in ArchitectureThe Greedy Society: The Dino Look in BriberyBuilding Walls and Manmade Mountains: The Dino Look in BureaucracyPumping Iron: The Dino Look in SportsThe Phenotype of the Dino HumanSummaryChapter Five: In the Sign of the ButterflyA Self-Absorbed Dance above Radiant MeadowsBuddha’s Admiration and the Butterfly in ArtNames for the ButterflyThe Co-Evolution of Flowering Plants and ButterfliesSmall is beautiful: The structural principle of the butterflyMetamorphosisA Dancing Micro-RainbowGenetic MutationMaster Strategists of Wise AdaptationThe Discreet Charm of the Dino-Butterfly-BourgeoisieWhere There Are Enemies, There Is Honor?Chapter Six: Three Types of LeadershipThe Three Types of Leaders and Their Modes of PerceptionThe Three Types of Leaders and How They ThinkThe Three Types of Leaders and Their EmotionsThe Three Types of Leaders and the Way Their Physiological Axes are ActivatedThe Three Types of Leaders and Their Patterns of BehaviorFrom the Ideal to the RealChapter Seven: The Leader of the Future: From Ice Hockey Player to SurferThe Great MetamorphosisThe Cycle of MutationsThe Systemic Co-Determination of Human Existence and Human Operational ModesThe Syngenetic Control of Operational ModesThe Mutation of the Fundamental EpistemeThe Mutation of GoalsThe Mutation of Rules in Our Syngenetic ProgramChapter EightBeyond the CrisisBibliography

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