Creative problem-solving skills in leadership: Direction, actions, and reactions1

Creativity Across Domains: Faces of the Muse

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 205-224

  Mumford, Michael D ^a   Strange, Jill M ^a   Scott, Gina Marie ^a   Gaddis, Blaine P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410611925     Document Type: Chapter

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