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Why Creative Leadership?
Creative leaders
search for
and
discover opportunities, introduce positive change and make
quantum leaps
forward in creating
new products
and
processes.
Entrepreneurial Leader: 4 Specific Attributes
"The
environment in which we live
is changing rapidly and in unpredictable
ways. Individuals who are
creative are
able to
bring about change and
visualize future opportunities. Creative leaders are a critical resource
needed to find answers to difficult problems. They are the ones who can
navigate the future. They are able to embrace ambiguity and
reframe problems as
opportunities. They have competencies that include how to read and
understand the environment,
build
alliances, recognize the importance of social responsibility, manage
complexity, use information technology, and
encourage
creativity. Increasingly, leaders are using a proactive stance in taking
their organizations into uncharted territory."1
Systemic
Innovation: 7 Areas
Using
Strategic Intent to Motivate Idea Generation
Strategic intent is senior management's primary
motivational
tool for radical idea generation.
Senior management uses strategic intent to
communicate a misfit between current resources and corporate aspirations and
motivate idea generation when it actively encourages
the quest for new opportunities.
Energize Others
Case in Point
25
Lessons from Jack Welch
To
Jack Welch, the former legendary CEO
of
GE, a
good leader who can make people feel that they really
are
contributing members of a team, that is working
toward a shared and
worthwhile goal can unleash
huge stores of
positive energy.
Welch called them "rewards
for the soul," which, he pointed out, also needed to be accompanied by
"rewards for the wallet."...
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10 Ways To Murder Creativity
Leadership
vs. Management
Leadership-Management Synergy
Leaders: Lead improvisation.
Managers: Provide structure.
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Resulting synergy:
Jazz of Innovation...
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The Jazz of Innovation: 11 Practice Tips
The Jazz of Innovation
The improvisation-driven model for
innovation project management doesn’t discard structure, just as there
is a clear structure to good jazz. In innovation, this structure is created
through
roadmaps,
guiding principles,
business processes, systems and organizational
charts.
Strategic planning
and road-mapping processes cannot guarantee brilliant flashes of creative
insight, but they can prepare minds and increase the odds that such flashes
occur in real time. Thus structure, as chords do in jazz, serves as a basis
for improvisation,
experimentations,
discoveries
and
innovation...
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The Tao of Value Innovation
Best
Practices
Google:
10 Golden Rules
Encourage
creativity. Google
engineers can spend up to 20 percent of their time on a project of their
choice. There is, of course, an approval process and some oversight, but
basically we want to
allow creative people to be creative. One of our
not-so-secret weapons is our ideas mailing list: a companywide
suggestion box where people can post ideas ranging from parking
procedures to the next killer app. The software allows for everyone to
comment on and rate ideas, permitting the best ideas to percolate to the
top...
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The Tao of Entrepreneurial Creativity
Leader as Servant
You cannot lead people unless they are willing
to follow you. People will trust you if you help them achieve more, unleash
their creativity and bring out their own sense of worth...
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Lateral Leadership
A lateral leader is a kind of person who
mastered
lateral thinking
skills and can
create a climate for creativity and to transform your organization
into a
powerhouse of innovation. A
lateral leader
inspires people
to have the confidence to take risk,
energizes people, and can help
them develop their skills in
creative techniques.
Major Leadership Schools: Correlation
Entrepreneurial Creativity
Your
entrepreneurial creativity
is
a
synergistic
combination of your four capabilities:
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Creative thinking skills
-
Cross-functional expertise
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Internal motivation...
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Creative Problem Solving
One of the key functions of the
corporate executive is
solve problems and
make decisions with a high level of
competence. Your ability to
deal with problems
creatively and effectively is the key determinant of your success as a
manager and a corporate leader...
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