The John Adair Handbook of Management and Leadership

Summary and six-month follow-up test

The seven habits of successful creative thinkers are:

1 Thinking outside the apparent confines of the problem /

situation

2 Welcoming chance intrusions

3 Listening to your depth mind (the unconscious mind)

4 Suspending judgement

5 Using the stepping stones of analogy

6 Tolerating ambiguity

7 Banking all ideas from all sources

Innovation needs the generation, harvesting and implementation of

ideas. Managers good at innovation accept risk, are flexible and are

motivated to take ideas through to completion.

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