Abstract
Several years ago, in a spontaneous, self-organising way, a group of colleagues and I initiated a creative act in our organisation. We generated a series of workshops for ourselves in order to improve our work, engage in problem solving, and learn from each other. Our community of practice (Wenger, 1998) enabled us as knowledge workers to develop our own small system, in context, with open invitations and shared leadership.
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Watson, E. (2014). Organisational Leadership for Creativity. In: Ambrose, D., Sriraman, B., Pierce, K.M. (eds) A Critique of Creativity and Complexity. Advances in Creativity and Giftedness, vol 25. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-773-5_6
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