Swarm Intelligence: What Nature Teaches Us About Shaping Creative Leadership
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (825 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1137278471 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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A bit densely written but well worth your time When I first started this book, it seemed dense and academic, and I was hoping for a more accessibly written, Malcolm-Gladwell style book that boiled complicated ideas into memorable anecdotes. But as I delved into the book, I read with growing interest and excitement, becau. All educators need to read Swarm Intelligence David J. Rufo All educators need to read Swarm Intelligence. James Rolling’s newest book is surprising and insightful, cautionary yet hopeful. Rolling deftly and succinctly explicates creative attrition found in our schools while offering new perspectives and paradigms. Rolling's cr. Must read This was a book that I read slowly, giving myself time to pause and think about the concepts as they were presented, and it's a book I'm sure I'll read again. The author draws on cutting-edge research to demonstrate how humans collaborate adaptively, just as swarms of other
Yet scores measuring creativity among American children have been on the wane for decades. Companies and organizations everywhere cite creativity as the most desirable - and elusive - leadership quality of the future. A specialist in creative leadership, professor James Haywood Rolling, Jr. 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 today's youth.. He argues that today's 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. knows firsthand that the classroom is a key to either unlocking or blocking the critical imagination
James Haywood Rolling, Jr. . He has served on the Board of Directors of the National Art Education Association, and is the author of over 25 articles, nine book chapters, and two books on the subjects of the arts, education, creativity and human identity. is the chair of Art Education and a dual associate professor in Art Education and Teaching and Leadership at Syracuse University.
This wonderfully readable and researched text takes its readers by the hand and points to what we are, and what we can be, as a people whose destinies intertwine and affect one another in countless complex ways.” Christine Marmé Thompson, Penn State University“In Swarm Intelligence, James Rolling takes on many long- held beliefs about creative behavior as an individual human capacity, and instead offers a picture of creativity as a swarming enterprise of social activity, common impulses, and fluid systems for shaping our lives in meaningful ways. Rolling paints an