Title: The hothouse effect : intensify creativity in your organization using secrets from history's most innovative communities /
Authors: Kunstler, Barton Lee.
Publisher: AMACOM,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Creative ability in business.
Abstract: "In The HotHouse Effect, Barton Kunstler examines the dynamics of diverse communities where creativity has flourished, and pinpoints the factors that drove their exceptional fervor and accomplishments. What's more, he shows you how to assess creativity in your own organization and then establish the environment needed for it to operate at maximum power."
Contents: Introduction -- The Hothouse Effect -- The Four Dimensions of the Hothouse Effect -- The First Dimension: Values/Mission -- Athens: Showing the Way -- A High-Tech Hothouse: Inspiration Meets Organization -- The Second Dimension: Ideas/Exchange -- Renaissance à la Florentine: "Disturbers, agents of the new" -- The Art of the Idea: Four Entrepreneurial Innovators -- The Third Dimension: Perception/Learning -- The Bauhaus: Learning By Perceiving -- A Contemporary Bauhaus in Bologna -- The Fourth Dimension: Social/Play -- Re-Creating the Universe -- "It's all in there" -- Creative Visions in Research and Manufacturing -- CHAI-T: The Creative Hothouse Assessment Instrument Tablet -- The Hothouse Challenge! -- Conclusion.