A Year of Creativity: 52 smart ideas for boosting creativity, innovation and inspiration at work

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A Year of Creativity demystifies what it means to be creative, showing how all of us need to exercise our creativity muscles if we are to meet the challenges of an uncertain world. If you want to win at work, efficiency is not enough, strategy is not enough, and analysis is not enough. We live in times of increasing complexity and ambiguity; even businesses that have themselves been major disruptors fear major new disruption themselves. In response, leaders are battening down the hatches: the more uncertain the world, the more they retreat into stale, established patterns of behaviour. This is a big mistake. The only way to secure competitive advantage is to ensure that creative thinking is driving your organization. It will enable workplace satisfaction, boost performance, and encourage new ideas throughout teams. To tackle our uncertain environment - and to win in the world of future business - we all need to get serious about creativity and the potential it can unleash. The authors of Belonging have now written A Year of Creativity, which will make creativity accessible to everyone. In 52 lessons, it explores how to be creative (either individually or in groups and teams), how to nurture creativity, and how - as a result - to redefine yourself and your career.

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An atlas of creativity that celebrates the best of our wild, unpredictable and generous humanity just at the time that the algorithmic world is trying to tame, predict and cost it. -- Frank Cottrell-Boyce * Screenwriter & Award-Winning Novelist *
A Year of Creativity is a game changer. Kathryn and Sue have written an important and entertaining book. The best business book Ive read this year. -- Rak Patel * Head of Sales, EMEA, Spotify *
This book ignites innovation, challenging business leaders to embrace creativity as the ultimate competitive advantage. A must-read for forward-thinking executives. -- Larissa Vince * CEO, TBWA London *

Author Bio

Sue Unerman is the Chief Transformation Officer at MediaCom, one of the UK's highest profile media agencies. She blogs at www.sueunerman.com and is co-host of the MediaCom Connected Podcast. Kathryn Jacob is CEO of Pearl & Dean. With Sue, she is the co-author of Belonging (Bloomsbury, 2020), and The Glass Wall (Profile Books, 2016). She sits on the Development Board of RADA and is global President elect of SAWA.