Tudor Rickards
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Tudor Rickards (born 1941 in Pontypridd, Wales) is a self-published author of non-fiction and fiction, a business academic, and a scientist. He is Professor Emeritus at University of Manchester and formerly Professor of creativity and Organisational change at Alliance Manchester Business School.{{cite web |url=http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/mbs/Tudor.rickards |title=Prof Tudor Rickards, research profile - personal details (The University of Manchester) |website=www.manchester.ac.uk |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090515014530/http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/mbs/Tudor.rickards |archive-date=15 May 2009 |url-status=dead}} His fiction works include The Unnamed Threat: A Wendy Lockinge Mystery (2019), Seconds Out (2018) and Chronicles of Leadership (2016). His non-fiction includes Tennis Matters: A Leaders We Deserve Monograph (2015), Tennis Tensions (2015), The Manchester Method (2015) and The Double Houdini (2016).
He was an early promoter in Europe of the TRIZ system of creativity and idea generation, inviting TRIZ pioneer Dr Phan Dung to speak at EACI (European Association of Creativity and Innovation) conferences{{Cite web | url=http://www.eaci.net/EACI_-_European_Association_for_Creativity_%26_Innovation/Home.html | title=EACI - European Association for Creativity & Innovation}} and publishing some of the first papers in English by Dr Phan Dung on the subject in Creativity and Innovation Management.{{Cite web | url=http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/eforum/ePhanDungForum990708.html |title = TRIZ in Vietnam (Phang Dung) (Jul. 1999)}}
Education
Rickards was educated at Pontypridd Boys’ Grammar School and went on to study chemistry and radiation chemistry at The University of Wales at Cardiff (now Cardiff University).{{cn|date=November 2023}} Following post-doctoral research at New York Medical College^ Rickards, T., Herp, A., & Pigman, W., (1966) The kinetics of depolymerization of hyaluronic acid by l-ascorbic acid, and the inhibition of this reaction by anions of the lyotropic series, J of Polymer Science Part A-1 Polymer Chemistry, 5,4. pp 931–934 in the 1960s, he returned to the UK to work in the R&D department of Unilever Laboratories,{{cite web | title=Espacenet - Bibliographic data | website=Espacenet - Home page | url=http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC=AU&NR=8289775&KC=&FT=E | access-date=2020-06-16}}. based in Port Sunlight, Merseyside, UK.{{Cite web | url=http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/09/18/obituary-richard-duggan-64375-21844124/ |title = Liverpool Echo: Latest Liverpool and Merseyside news, sports and what's on}} He attended Manchester Business School in 1972. Alan Pearson, founding editor of R&D management journal invited him to join MBS to study creativity techniques in R&D laboratories. The work was subsequently subsumed into the INCA programme (Innovation through Creative Analysis).J.F. Wilson The Manchester Experiment: A History of Manchester Business School 1965–1990, SAGE Publications Limited, pp92–93
Career
A collaboration with Horst Geschka at the Battelle Institute in Frankfurt, Germany, led to a joint publication comparing practices and deficiencies in the application of creativity techniques in the UK and in Germany. He worked on the development of networks enabling European creativity practitioners to work together and explore alternatives to the dominant US models.Gryskiewicz, S., (1992) Letter from America (With respectful acknowledgement to Alistair Cooke), Creativity and Innovation Management, 1,4, 214–215Van de Meer, H., (2006) Conference Report ECCI-9 Creativity and Innovation Management 15,1, 120–122 {{doi|10.1111/j.1467-8691.2006.00376.x}}
He co-founded the academic journal, Creativity and Innovation Management, in 1991{{cite web | title=Wiley Online Library | website=Wiley Online Library | date=2020-06-15 | url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ | access-date=2020-06-16}} and is Alex Osborn Visiting professor at State University of New York, Buffalo, a lifetime position offered to scholars who are deemed to enrich teaching at the university's Centre for Studies in Creativity.
He is developing the use of non-traditional fictional modes for exploring issues in leadership theory.{{Cite web | url=http://leaderswedeserve.wordpress.com/2012/06/24/recent-research-into-leaders-to-the-tune-of-the-eton-boating-song/ |title = Recent research into leaders [to the tune of the Eton Boating Song]|date = 24 June 2012}}{{better|reason=person's website|date=November 2023}} The world of nature has also been a source of inspiration, with work on intelligent horsemanship{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/managers-learn-hollywoodstyle-horse-whispering-703698.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026051514/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/managers-learn-hollywoodstyle-horse-whispering-703698.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=26 October 2012 | work=The Independent | location=London | title=Managers learn Hollywood-style horse whispering | first=Ben | last=Russell | date=2001-01-08 | access-date=2010-05-26}} and the lessons it offers for the workplace, and profiling management and leadership styles using animal behaviour.{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/student/postgraduate/mbas-guide/can-we-learn-from-the-apes-562335.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100318053320/http://www.independent.co.uk/student/postgraduate/mbas-guide/can-we-learn-from-the-apes-562335.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=18 March 2010 | work=The Independent | location=London | title=Can we learn from the apes? | date=2004-05-06 | access-date=2010-05-26}} His work has been criticised for attempting to learn lessons from studying animal rather than human behaviour.
He was the guest speaker for the 2014 Alex Osborn memorial event at Buffalo State University on the theme of Dissecting Creativity.{{cite web | title=Dissecting Creativity: Interview with Tudor Rickards | website=Leaders We Deserve | date=2015-03-10 | url=https://leaderswedeserve.blog/2015/03/10/dissecting-creativity-interview-with-tudor-rickards/ | access-date=2020-06-16}}
In March 2015, Rickards took part in a keynote introduction to the ARTEM Organizational Creativity International Conference{{cite web | title=1st ARTEM Organizational Creativity International Conference | website=Sciencesconf.org | date=2015-03-26 | url=http://artemocc2015.sciencesconf.org/ | access-date=2020-06-16}} in Nancy, France, on rethinking paths on creativity to move organizations towards sustainability.
On 17 April 2015, Rickards co-presented Taking Tough Decisions: A Creative Problem-Solving Approach with Dr Rebecca Baron (Associate Dean General Practice Health Education North West) at the Fifth National Medical Leadership conference{{cite web |url=https://www.nwpgmd.nhs.uk/medical-leadership/national-medical-leadership-conference |title=National Medical Leadership Conference | North Western Deanery |website=www.nwpgmd.nhs.uk |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929141156/https://www.nwpgmd.nhs.uk/medical-leadership/national-medical-leadership-conference |archive-date=29 September 2011 |url-status=dead}} at the Macron Stadium, Bolton.
In 2015, Rickards self-published an eBook The Manchester Method: A Leaders We Deserve Monograph{{cite web |url=http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Manchester-Method-Leaders-Monograph-ebook/dp/B00V4WB1VK |title=The Manchester Method: A Leaders We Deserve Monograph eBook: Tudor Rickards: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store |website=www.amazon.co.uk |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304212645/http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Manchester-Method-Leaders-Monograph-ebook/dp/B00V4WB1VK |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead}}{{better|reason=Amazon is not a reliable, independent source|date=November 2023}}
He lectures at the Research University - Higher School of Economics in Moscow.{{cite web | title=Tudor Rickards: about creativity, leadership and president Trump | website=HSE University | date=2016-11-23 | url=https://www.hse.ru/en/ma/sti/rickards | access-date=2020-06-16}}
Rickards contributed as keynote speaker at the 1st National Medical Leadership Conference of the Mersey & North Western Deaneries, Reebok Stadium Bolton, 10 March 2011,{{cite web |url=http://www.merseydeanery.nhs.uk/graphics/nwe_Medical%20Leadership%20Conference%20Flyer%20(2).pdf |title=Archived copy |website=www.merseydeanery.nhs.uk |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110316123556/http://www.merseydeanery.nhs.uk/graphics/nwe_Medical%20Leadership%20Conference%20Flyer%20(2).pdf |archive-date=16 March 2011 |url-status=dead}} and at the Institute of Directors{{Cite web | url=http://www.iod.com/home/default.aspx | title=Institute of Directors | Inspiring business|website=www.iod.com}} North West annual conference on Leading through Change, Manchester, 22 March 2012.
In August 2010, Rickards contributed to an eBook collection of political poems entitled Emergency Verse – Poetry in Defence of the Welfare State edited by Alan Morrison.{{cite web | title=The Recusant | website=The Recusant | date=2019-11-21 | url=http://www.therecusant.org.uk | access-date=2020-06-16}}
As of August 2011, Rickards has been appointed to the board of international advisors to the Institute for Creative Management and Innovation, Kinki University, Japan.{{cite web |url=http://www.kindai.ac.jp/sangaku/kenkyu/icmi/ |title=経営イノベーション研究所 | 近畿大学 |website=www.kindai.ac.jp |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110815013840/http://www.kindai.ac.jp/sangaku/kenkyu/icmi/ |archive-date=15 August 2011 |url-status=dead}}
Since formal retirement, Rickards has written recreationally in multiple formats. He regularly updates his blogging platform, Leaders We Deserve, which analyses contemporary styles of leadership. He also writes and uploads poetry to another personal website, The Reluctant Witterer.
In November 2021, Rickards published an e-book, Boris, Me and the BBC, a combined memoir and political history of the years 2016 - 2020 in Great Britain. It details his life and experiences in response to the political turbulence of the European Union referendum, the election and tenure of Boris Johnson, and the beginnings of the COVID-19 pandemic.{{cn|date=November 2023}}
At the end of March 2022, Rickards produced the first episode of his podcast, Tudorama.{{cn|date=November 2023}}
In the media
Rickards is regularly quoted in the British media.{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8645018.stm | work=BBC News | title=The trouble with blue sky thinking | date=2010-04-26}}{{Cite web | url=http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/business/s/143/143758_studying_law_of_nature_in_the_office.html |title = Studying law of nature in the office|date = 30 June 2005}}{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/Archive/Article/0,4273,4358255,00.html | work=The Guardian | location=London | title=A nose for business | first=Francis | last=Beckett | author-link = Francis Beckett |date=2002-02-19 | access-date=2010-05-26}}{{cite web | title=Breaking News, World News & Multimedia | website=The New York Times | date=2001-04-07 | url=http://www.iht.com/articles/2001/04/07/mold_ed3_.php | access-date=2020-06-16}} He is a pioneer and advocate of the ‘Manchester Method’ – the system of creative and applied learning championed by Manchester Business School – on which he has written widely.{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/student/postgraduate/mbas-guide/horses-for-mba-courses-544429.html | work=The Independent | location=London | title=Horses for MBA courses | date=2004-10-21 | access-date=2010-05-26}}{{dead link|date=August 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}{{cite web |url=http://www.ejel.org/volume-2/vol2-issue1/issue1-art23-drinkwater.pdf |title=Archived copy |website=www.ejel.org |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040325152644/http://www.ejel.org/volume-2/vol2-issue1/issue1-art23-drinkwater.pdf |archive-date=25 March 2004 |url-status=dead}}See also p xviii in Educating Managers Through Real World Projects by Charles Wankel, Bob DeFillippi, Robert Defillipi, published by IAP, 2005 {{ISBN|978-1-59311-370-4}} for reference to Rickards' work in this area.
Rickards’ research has been described by the Financial Times as non-traditional.Financial Times, 20 September 1996
Bibliography
- {{cite book | last = Rickards | first = Tudor | title = Problem Solving Through Creativity | publisher = Wiley | year = 1974 | isbn = 978-0-470-72045-5 }}
- {{cite book | last = Rickards | first = Tudor | title = Creativity and Problem Solving at Work | publisher = Gower Publishing, Ltd | year = 1997 | isbn = 978-0-566-07961-0 }}
- {{cite book | last1 = Rickards | first1 = Tudor |last2=Clark |first2=M. | title = Dilemmas of Leadership| publisher = Routledge | year = 2006 | url = http://www.routledge.com/textbooks/0415355850/about/default.asp | isbn = 978-0-415-35584-1 }}
- {{cite book | last1 = Rickards | first1 = Tudor |last2=Runco |first2=Mark A. |last3=Moger|first3=Susan
| title = The Routledge Companion To Creativity | publisher = Routledge | year = 2008 | url = https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Creativity-1st-Edition/Rickards-Runco-Moger/p/book/9780415773171 | isbn = 978-0-415-77317-1}}
- {{cite book | last = Rickards | first = Tudor | title = Dilemmas of Leadership| publisher = Routledge | edition = 2nd |year = 2011 | url = http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415618540/ | isbn = 978-0-415-61854-0}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/mbs/Tudor.rickards/ Tudor Rickards' website at the University of Manchester]
- [http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/mbs/Tudor.rickards/publications Tudor Rickards' list of publications]
- [http://tudorrickards.co.uk/ Tudor Rickards' personal website]
- [http://leaderswedeserve.wordpress.com/ Tudor Rickards' Blog 'exploring leadership stories in business, politics and sport']
- [http://www.eaci.net/EACI_-_European_Association_for_Creativity_%26_Innovation/Home.html The European Association for Creativity and Innovation]
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