1 / 30

Creativity & Leadership

Creativity & Leadership. David A. Mack, Ph.D. Creativity & Leadership. MANAGEMENT vs. LEADERSHIP. Creativity & Leadership. Managers – See Different Things Leaders – See Things Differently. Creativity & Leadership. Managers – Motivate People Leaders – Inspire Them.

tobit
Download Presentation

Creativity & Leadership

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript


  1. Creativity & Leadership David A. Mack, Ph.D.

  2. Creativity & Leadership MANAGEMENT vs. LEADERSHIP

  3. Creativity & Leadership Managers – See Different Things Leaders – See Things Differently

  4. Creativity & Leadership Managers – Motivate People Leaders – Inspire Them

  5. Creativity & Leadership Managers – Are Fired Leaders – Resign

  6. Leadership Experience + Creativity + Management = LEADERSHIP

  7. CREATIVITY EXPERIENCE MANAGEMENT

  8. Experience • Experience is essentially the accumulation of “Assets”: • Skills • Knowledge • Credentials

  9. Experience • Experience leads to an understanding of cause and effect: • Look at the big picture • Work environments are not stable • Events don’t often happen in isolation • Chain of events

  10. Experience • Experience also means developing contacts: • Knowledgeable others • Diverse viewpoints • Professional and personal • Networking Inexperienced people tend to be captive to a small circle of acquaintances

  11. Management What is Management? The major responsibility of management is to manage -- Harold Geneen, ITT

  12. Management • Management functions: • Scheduling activities • Assigning responsibilities • Training • Resource allocation • Anticipating problems • Coordination with outside entities • Monitoring results

  13. Creativity Creativity – what is it? Are you a creative person?

  14. Creativity Some men see things that are, and ask 'Why?' I dream of things that never were, and ask 'Why not?' Robert F. Kennedy

  15. Creativity • Creativity: • Novel associations that lead to new outcomes

  16. Creativity • Requirements for creativity: • A pool of inputs • The ability to see novel connections amongst them • The courage to pursue them

  17. Creativity oholene

  18. abde TIME

  19. Cluck Cluck Quack Quack

  20. ALL/world

  21. Creativity • Psychological Barriers • Cultural Barriers • Environmental Barriers Barriers To Creativity

  22. Creativity Barriers To Creativity • Psychological Barriers • Cultural Barriers • Environmental Barriers • Thinking Language Blocks • Functional Fixedness • Habitual Ways of Visualizing

  23. VOLUME I VOLUME II VOLUME III VOLUME IV EACH BOOK’S PAGES ARE 2 INCHES THICK EACH COVER (FRONT OR BACK) IS 1/6 INCH THICK

  24. How can we enhance our Creativity • Relax • Expand your horizons • Listen • Read • Observe • Don’t sweat mistakes • Seek agreement to be creative up front

  25. How can we enhance our Creativity • Criticize kindly • Look beyond the answer • Write down all the ideas • Use “brainstorming” • Value and seek out diversity • Ask for feedback

  26. Creative Leadership Good News: Creativity barriers can be overcome. Bad News: You have to work at it!!

More Related