Alf Rehn
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| Professor Alf Rehn has a Chair of Management and Organization at the Åbo Akademi University in Finland. He is also a writer and a speaker and he also consults companies on strategic development, creativity and innovation. Alf Rehn will have three books out in spring 2009: Makt (Power), with Professor Mats Börjesson, is a short volume on power in contemporary societies; Ledarskap och ledarsmak (A Taste of Leadership), which is a book on how to become a better leader by engaging more with food, cooking and cuisine; and Creativity and the Contemporary Economy, with Dr. Niina Koivunen. It deals with leadership, organization and change in the creative economy. The British newspaper the Times called him a "star of the future", and in Scandinavia he is known as an academic enfant terrible. “What will we do when we've all become "creative"? The love of creativity in contemporary society has so permeated modern discussions of economic and organizational development that the concept itself may be in danger of becoming emptied out. And what does 'beyond' mean in this context?” In his keynote, Alf Rehn will push this issue by presenting a heretics view of creativity, arguing against simplified understandings of it and for taking the full breadth of creative endeavors into consideration, even if they may go against the way we view our beloved concept. Alf Rehn website |
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