Colin Fisher
Academy of Management Scholar Colin Fisher of University College London is the author of The Collective Edge: Unlocking the Secret Power of Groups, published by Avery/Penguin Random House, which has been translated into 10 languages. He has served as a keynote speaker for organizations around the world, including governments and Fortune 500 firms.
His academic research on group dynamics, creativity, improvisation, and leadership has been published in the field’s top academic journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Perspectives, Academy of Management Discoveries, Academy of Management Annals, and Academy of Management Collections. His work has been featured in prominent media outlets, such as The BBC, The Conversation UK, The Daily Mail, The Financial Times, Forbes, Fortune, Harvard Business
Review, MSN, Next Big Idea Club, NPR, Psychology Today, Times Radio, and The Times.
Fisher earned his Ph.D. in organizational behavior at Harvard University and, before joining UCL, worked at Boston University’s School of Management. Prior to starting his Ph.D. program, he studied improvisation in the arts at New York University (master’s degree) and jazz trumpet at New England Conservatory of Music (bachelor’s degree).
More content featuring Fisher
- Easing Fears about Improvising at Work
- When Help at Work Is Utterly Unhelpful
- Really Listening at Work Is More Than Saying “I Hear You”
- The Experience of Improvising in Organizations: A Creative Process Perspective
- When the Thought Doesn’t Count: The Dynamics of Unhelpful Help in Creative Organizations
- Deep Help in Complex Project Work: Guiding and Path-Clearing Across Difficult Terrain
- Listening in Organizations: A Synthesis and Future Agenda
- The Turn toward Creative Work
- The Geography of Strain: Organizational Resilience as a Function of Intergroup Relations
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