For further exploration

• TM Amabile, ˜How to kill creativity, Harvard Business Review , SeptemberOctober 1998, pp. 7687.

  An easy-to-read article that discusses how creativity can flourish or be squashed in any organisation.

• W Bennis and PW Biederman, Organizing Genius:The Secrets of Creative Collaboration , Addison-Wesley, Massachusetts, 1997.

  A must-read if you are interested in enhancing the creative performance of your team.

• M Csikszentmihalyi, Creativity , Harper Collins, New York, 1996. A well written book about the authors concept of ˜flow.

• E de Bono, Serious Creativity , Harper Collins, London, 1992. I believe this is de Bonos best book on his lateral thinking theory, tools and techniques.

• D Goleman, Working with Emotional Intelligence , Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 1998.

  A practical guide to using the theory of emotional intelligence. Creativity works best when the heart is engaged.

• G Hamel, Leading the Revolution , Harvard Business School Press, Boston, 2000.

  A challenging and provocative book on the need for disruptive rather than incremental innovation.

• A Koestler, The Act of Creation ,Penguin, London, 1964. It may be difficult to get, but in my opinion it is the all-time classic on individual creativity.

• K Hudson, Designing a Continuously Creative , University of Western Sydney, 2001, www.monash.edu.au/casestudies/css/582-co. htm

  This is my PhD thesis. It includes in-depth discussions with 80 of Australias leaders about the essence of organisational creativity.