Dimensions
152 x 229 x 30mm
A look at the news on any given day tells us that our world is changing fast in ways we find hard to comprehend. The old methods of dealing with problems don't seem to work anymore. And knowing how to be creative is fast becoming a core competence of life today.
In CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE, Innovation expert Bruce Nussbaum charts the making of a new literacy, Creative Intelligence, or CQ. From corporate CEOs trying to parse the confusing matrix of global business to K-12 teachers attempting to reach wired kids bored with the classroom, creativity is increasingly seen as the antidote to the uncertainty and complexity that make our lives so insecure. Creative Intelligence embodies a bundle of specific literacies that increase our ability to navigate the unknown. It's a skill-set that explorers have tacitly used for eons but which, only now, is explicitly revealing its secrets to us. So to IQ and EQ, we must now make room for CQ.
Here, Bruce explores how people and organizations are learning how to be more creative in work and in life. He investigates the ways in which individuals, corporations, even nations are boosting their CQ and how that translates into their abilities to make new things and solve new problems within our new, increasingly complex environments.
Ultimately, readers will learn how to frame problems in new ways and come up with solutions that are original by looking at anthropology, not psychology, and culture, not the brain, for insight. CQ is the next evolutionary step in our thinking about how to deal with the future.
