Mueller’s Book on ‘Creative Change’ Released

“Creative Change: Why We Resist It…How We Can Embrace It,” a new book written by Jennifer Mueller, associate professor of management in the University of San Diego School of Business, has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Mueller’s book examines why corporate CEOs, top executives and other business leaders say they want creativity yet chronically reject creative solutions and embrace instead the familiar. Mueller’s research also reveals that it’s not just CEOs, but educators, scientists and others who often struggle to accept new and creative ideas even when desired.
Mueller diagnoses the hidden innovation barrier and offers solutions including:
- a four-step process (and a fifth lifeline) to self-disrupt your current mindset and recognize creative opportunity
- an idea-pitching framework aimed at helping you overcome other people's sticky preference for the status quo
- key organizational levers to disrupt the cultural beliefs holding your company back
- tips to more accurately recognize creative leaders who can lead organizations in productive new directions
- strategies to generate ideas without harming your ability to make them count with the decision makers
Mueller teaches organizational behavior and leadership classes at both the undergraduate and MBA levels in the USD School of Business. In addition to creativity, her research examines the costs and benefits of collaboration in teams. She has published in Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology and Psychological Science. She is currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Applied Psychology as well as Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. She earned her PhD in developmental and social psychology from Brandeis University.
Contact:
Amy Schmitz
amyschmitz@sandiego.edu
(619) 260-4658