A joint publication of the Jossey-Bass business & management series and the Center for Creative Leadership.

Includes bibliographical references p. 255-263 and index. 505 8 Machine generated contents note: 1. Paying Attention -- Shifting Between Modes of Attention -- Understanding Left-Mode and Right-Mode Attention -- Using Kinesthetic Attention -- Paying Attention to Negative Space -- Asking Powerful Questions -- Developing the Competency of Paying Attention -- Cautions -- 2. Personalizing -- Learning Begins with the Personal Connection -- Practicing Assessment for Development A4D -- Practicing Exploration for Development E4D -- Tapping Into Your Passion -- Knowing When to Let Go of Your Personal Side -- Developing the Competency of Personalizing -- Cautions -- 3. Imaging -- Making Imagination Tangible -- Seeing Organizational Vision in a New Light -- Exploring Scenarios -- Making and Using Metaphors -- Making Poetry in the Face of Complexity -- Developing the Competency of Imaging -- Cautions -- 4. Serious Play -- Play Enhances Learning amid Turbulence -- Play Is a Community Activity -- Play Is the Heart of Science and Technology -- Developing the Competency of Serious Play -- Cautions -- 5. Co-Inquiry -- Building Creative Leadership Communities -- Creating Spaces for Group Work -- Conducting Dialogue -- Putting Something in the Middle -- Crossing Boundaries -- Developing the Competency of Co-Inquiry -- Cautions -- 6. Crafting -- Thinking in Wholes -- Crafting Decisions -- Building Scaffolds for Learning -- Developing Leadership as Science and as Art -- Learning from Artists -- Developing the Competency of Crafting -- Cautions -- 7. Creative Leadership in Action -- Case Study 1: Task Force Collaboration -- Case Study 2: Leadership in New Media -- Case Study 3: Individual Leadership Coaching -- Case Study 4: Creative Product Innovation -- Case Study 5: Executive Interdependence -- Case Study 6: Inventing a New Manufacturing Paradigm -- Appendix A: The Leading Creatively Program -- Appendix B: Our Research Methods -- Appendix C: A Reflective Assessment of -- C2 Competencies: Competencies for Making -- Sense of Complex Challenges -- Appendix D: The ORC Star-Mapping Process -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Center for Creative Leadership.