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Contemporary Leadership Challenges
Social and behavioral science has for decades studied and recognized leadership as a social exchange between leaders and followers. But leadership is rather complex, and as such, it tends to lead to an increased interest within and across different disciplines. This book is an attempt to provide theoretical and empirical framework to better understand leadership challenges in various contexts. The authors cover an array of themes that span from an individual level to an organizational and societal level. In this volume, two sections are presented. The first section based on individual level focuses on different leadership styles and abilities, and the other section provides theories to understand leadership in public administration, in industrial settings and in nonprofit organizations.
Entrepreneurial Creativity and Growth
- including Ch. 9: Teaching and Detecting the Creative Potential: Experience and Perspectives
The concept of creativity is multidimensional, helping to take advantage of entrepreneurial opportunities and favoring in this way economic growth. Next to this basic argument of neoclassical theory, which ignores the role of entrepreneurship in growth, the present chapter states that entrepreneurship should be included as a contributing factor of growth. Through this key argument, this chapter attempts to clarify the importance of creativity to entrepreneurial activity, concentrating on the factors that influence entrepreneurial creativity that in turn lead to economic growth, as well as to capture the way in which entrepreneurial creativity is affected by this procedure. These factors are knowledge and education, the management of disrupting technologies, spill-over creativity, the role of cultural background and personal characteristics of individuals, the motives and incentives of individuals, the existence of—and access to—resources, and the institutions that delineate the environment of action of the entrepreneur.
Search Sage Business Cases for the following cases:
- Carvalho, L. & Williams, B., (2014). Let the cork fly: Creativity and innovation in a family business. In SAGE Business Cases. 2018. 10.4135/9781473995574
- Zulfiqar, S., Sohail, K. & Qureshi, M., (2016). Sam’s cake factory: A delectable journey of a woman entrepreneur. In SAGE Business Cases. 2018. 10.4135/9781526429834
- Smith, R., Moult, S., Burge, P. & Turnbull, A., (2010). Brewdog: Business growth for punks!. In SAGE Business Cases. 2018. 10.4135/9781473996038
- Chesbrough, H., Kim, S. & Agogino, A., (2014). Chez Panisse: Building an open innovation ecosystem. In SAGE Business Cases. 2018. 10.4135/9781526407993
- Richardson, J. B. (2011). Real leadership and the U.S. Army: overcoming a failure of imagination to conduct adaptive work. Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College.Case study from the Hathi Trust digital library.
- “Make Me Creative: Redesign My Brain.” Films Media Group, 2013, fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=99165&xtid=58564. Accessed 5 Feb. 2018.This program features a team of experts that coach host Todd Sampson to increase his creativity and overcome limiting mindsets. A one hour video from Films on Demand.
ANAND, N., & BARSOUX, J. (2017). What Everyone Gets Wrong About Change Management. Harvard Business Review, 95(6), 78-85.
Critchfield, S. (2017). How to Push Your Team to Take Risks and Experiment. Harvard Business Review Digital Articles, 2-5.
FERNANDEZ-ARAOZ, C., ROSCOE, A., & ARAMAKI, K. (2017). Turning potential into success: the missing link in leadership development. Harvard Business Review, 95(6), 86-93.
GREGERSEN, H. (2018). Better Brainstorming. (cover story). Harvard Business Review, 96(2), 64-71.
Morris, Michael. (2012). Metacognition: the skill every global leader needs. Harvard Business Review.
ROTHMAN, J. (2016). Shut up and Sit Down. New Yorker, 92(3), 64-69.
VERMEULEN, F., & SIVANATHAN, N. (2017). Stop doubling down on your failing strategy: how to spot (and escape) one before it’s too late. Harvard Business Review, 95(6), 110-117.
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