{"product_id":"swarm-intelligence-what-nature-teaches-us-about-shaping-creative-leadership-9781137278470","title":"Swarm Intelligence: What Nature Teaches Us About Shaping Creative Leadership","description":"\u003cp\u003eCompanies and organizations everywhere cite creativity as the most desirable - and elusive - leadership quality of the future. Yet scores measuring creativity among American children have been on the wane for decades. A specialist in creative leadership  professor James Haywood Rolling  Jr. knows firsthand that the classroom is a key to either unlocking or blocking the critical imagination. He argues that todays schools  with their focus on rote learning and test-taking  work to stymie creativity  leaving children cut off from their natural impulses and boxed in by low expectations. Drawing on cutting-edge research in the realms of biological swarm theory  systems theory  and complexity theory  Rolling shows why group collaboration and adaptive social networking make us both smarter and more creative  and how we can design education and workplace practices around these natural principles  instead of pushing a limited focus on individual achievement that serves neither children nor their future colleagues  managers and mentors. The surprising truth is that the future will be pioneered by the collective problem-solvers  making Swarm Intelligence a must-read for business leaders  educators  and anyone else concerned with nurturing creative intelligence and innovative habits in todays youth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45655649058869,"sku":"ByrdShop_1137278471","price":69.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781137278470.jpg?v=1781937462","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/swarm-intelligence-what-nature-teaches-us-about-shaping-creative-leadership-9781137278470","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}