This article provides insight into how some groups achieve extraordinary levels of creativity
by reconsidering the collective process through which new ideas develop. Previous …

Creativity often leads to the development of original ideas that are useful or influential, and
maintaining creativity is crucial for the continued development of organizations in particular …

How does a leader manage for creativity? Many managers fall into the trap of assuming that
only gifted individuals--readily identifiable" creative types"--can produce breakthrough …

Much of the idea exchange and evaluation that are part of the creative process occur in
groups. It is often presumed that groups facilitate these processes, but much research …

The contributors to this volume have covered a wide range of issues related to group
creativity, from individual-level processes to group interaction to the level of organizations …

Creativity researchers are scientists who study how new things are created by human
beings. We seek to answer a basic research question: What is the best scientific explanation …

Group creativity comes in many forms. It occurs whenever two or more individuals work
together to create some new idea, product, or procedure. These individuals can be casual …

Although creativity is often considered an individual ability or activity, innovation in teams
and organizations involves collaboration of people with diverse perspectives, knowledge …

Organizations that desire creativity often use groups like task forces, decision panels, and
selection committees with the primary purpose of evaluating novel ideas. Those groups …

One constant in this world is change. There is continual change in governments, cultures,
economies, technology, the arts, and fields of knowledge. What is the source of this …