Creativity in Management

1<Tab/>Introduction We all possess the ability to think creatively. As human animals, we are born with come creative thinking abilities - it is in our biological makeup to create - but we probably acquired most of our higher levels of creativity. That is, the creative problem solving abilities we use to solve other than day-to-day problems are most likely learnt. Through training, we have learnt to respond to certain situations …

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