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| Website: |
Genius Creativity and Leadership: Historiometric Inquiries |
| Author: |
Simonton, D. |
| ISBN: |
1583484388 |
| Publisher: |
Harvard University Press |
| URL: |
http://www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm?chunk=25&mtype=&wtit=Genius%20Creativity%20%20%20Leadership |
| Year: |
1984; 1999 |
| Description: |
Dean Keith Simonton examines uncommon people: those creators and leaders whose impact on their own and later times has been so great that they deserve the label "genius." A simultaneous look at creativity and leadership is itself uncommon, and the comparison shows that when creators and leaders act at genius levels they have many similarities. What it is that causes them to stand out above others? Simonton believes that if we subject the lives of the eminent to scientific analysis we may be able to discover general laws of history and social behavior. To do this he defines a discipline called historiometry. |
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