This book offers a comprehensive examination of everyday creativity: the ordinary yet meaningful ideas and actions individuals generate in the flow of daily work. Drawing on a systematic review of 83 empirical studies, it situates everyday creativity within the wider field of creativity research, clarifying its relationship to established levels of creativity and synthesising psychological and sociocultural perspectives that shape how creative acts are understood and evaluated.

Building on this conceptual foundation, the book integrates key theoretical frameworks with rich organisational examples. Drawing on a study of 52 chief executive officers navigating the COVID‑19 pandemic, it reveals how leaders mobilised small creative acts to maintain stability, respond to emerging problems and, in some cases, catalyse organisational change. These cases illuminate the role of leadership, social relationships, contextual affordances and workplace conditions in enabling or constraining everyday creativity. The final chapter examines how everyday creative ideas evolve through successive creative cycles, showing how small insights can develop over time into more substantial innovations and shape the continuity of creative development.

Bridging theory and practice, this book provides researchers, students and practitioners with a nuanced understanding of how everyday creativity unfolds and how it drives organisational innovation.

Ana Villanova is an independent consultant and researcher specializing in everyday creativity and organizational innovation. She holds a PhD in Management from Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal, and has over 17 years of executive experience in the technology and telecommunications sectors.