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Leading for Innovation: Are we nurturing or squelching creative thought?

Leading for Innovation: Are we nurturing or squelching creative thought?. Susan Baum, Ph.D. International Center for Talent Development. 21 st Century Skills. What is a culture of innovation? What is the role of creativity?. The Creativity Crisis

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Leading for Innovation: Are we nurturing or squelching creative thought?

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  1. Leading for Innovation: Are we nurturing or squelching creative thought? Susan Baum, Ph.D. International Center for Talent Development

  2. 21st Century Skills

  3. What is a culture of innovation?What is the role of creativity?

  4. The Creativity Crisis For the first time, research shows that American creativity is declining. What went wrong—and how we can fix it. Newsweek July 10,2010

  5. Culture of Convergent Thinking • High stakes testing • Focus on one right answer vs. process • Need for control • Disregard for play or messing about • Need for practical applications

  6. “It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry--for this delicate little plant aside from stimulation stands mostly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wreck and ruin without fail.” • (Einstein)

  7. 10 years old. skinny, sensitive, non-athletic, and clumsy in sports. He is a a troublemaker and poor in school. Math is a major problem. • His parents complain that he gets in trouble at home as well. He is always trying to find ways to terrify his sisters. • He told them a story of a wartime flier's body rotting in one of the family closets. Taking a a plastic skull, he put his father's World War II aviator cap and goggles on it and put it in the back of a closet. • He then dared his sisters to go into the dark closet, and when they did he closed the door. With a rigged-up device he lit up the skull from within and caused them to scream with terror

  8. Stephen Speilberg

  9. This teenager is quite wild.  Last year she was shooting rifles with her friends when a young man stood  in the way. She shot him. The young man was paralyzed.  Her grandfather was charged with letting unsupervised and inexperienced teenagers control rifles.  She continuously runs away but does return home. She is now 15 and is going to drop out of school. Her mother supports this.

  10. LUCILLE BALL

  11. This young man really dislikes school and finds it too strict. . He continuously gets suspended for mischievous deeds. For instance, He and his friend changed the combinations of everyone’s bike locks and set off explosives in teacher's desks.

  12. Steve Jobs

  13. This young student is doing poorly in school. Her father died when she was very young. Her mother who sang and had some brief movie roles is her hero. She loves watching her Mom perform but really dislikes school and is often absent. She cannot read or write and is planning to quit school when she turns 16.

  14. Cher

  15. Researchers say creativity should be taken out of the art room and put in the homeroom.

  16. Creativity sparks innovation in all disciplines

  17. The necessity of human ingenuity is undisputed. A recent IBM poll of 1,500 CEOs identified creativity as the No. 1 “leadership competency” of the future... All around us are matters of national and international importance that are crying out for creative solutions, from saving the Gulf of Mexico to bringing peace to Afghanistan to delivering health care. Such solutions emerge from a healthy marketplace of ideas, sustained by a populace constantly contributing original ideas and receptive to the ideas of others.

  18. : Do you need to be great to create?

  19. Big C --- Little C continuum

  20. PRACTICAL MANAGER TYPE • “GIVE ME THE BASIC IDEA • AND I CAN MAKE IT BETTER”

  21. LEARNED EXPERT TYPE GREAT SYNTHESIZER OF IDEAS: SEES PATTERNS MAKES CONNECTIONS

  22. CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVER TYPE • ENTREPRENEURS, INVENTORS, RISK TAKERS • “WONT’ TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER”

  23. Jonathan Baum Yahoo! Sports Jonathan Baum Jonathan Baum is assistant managing editor at Yahoo! Sports. He graduated from Alfred University with a degree in communications. Send Jonathan a question or comment for potential use in a future column or webcast. Add to My Yahoo! RSS

  24. PEOPLE PERSONS • CREATIVITY FROM THE HEART. • FEELINGS DRIVE THEIR CREATIVE EXPRESSION

  25. CREATIVITY: A MULTI FACETED CONSTRUCT • Person/ PERSONALITY TYPES • Process • Product • Press/environment

  26. Blocks to Creativity

  27. Factors affecting creative productivityTheresa Amabile, Ph.D. • Expected evaluation • Surveillance • Reward • Competition • Restricted choice– “how to approach the work” • Extrinsic motivation

  28. Creative Environment • When you treat people with respect, acknowledgment, and genuine positive reinforcement, you significantly increase the odds of creativity -- and by extension, innovation -- flourishing in your organization.

  29. When people are inspired by their own interests and enjoyment there is a better chance that they will explore unlikely paths, take risks, and in the end produce something unique and useful. (Amabile, 1986). • It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by coercion and a sense of duty (Einstein).

  30. Perceptual Blocks

  31. Connect the dots using the fewest possible straight lines.

  32. Connect the dots using the fewest possible straight lines.Could you do it in 4 lines?

  33. Connect the dots using the fewest possible straight lines

  34. Connect the dots using the fewest possible straight lines.Could you do it in 3 lines?

  35. Connect the dots using the fewest possible straight lines

  36. Connect the dots using the fewest possible straight lines.Could you do it with 1 line?

  37. Connect the dots using the fewest possible straight lines

  38. How many ways can you divide this square into 4 equal shapes?

  39. How many ways can you divide this square into 4 equal shapes?Like this for instance.

  40. Here is another way.Can you think of others?

  41. Did you consider this one?

  42. How many ways can you divide this square into 4 equal shapes?An infinite number of ways?

  43. Play: Take your childhood along with you

  44. Richard FeynmanAll genius – all buffoon “I do physics for the fun of It”

  45. Alexander Fleming: Quiet but Quirky delighted in creating images out of the bacteriahe was growing on agar plates by arranging the initial colonies so that they would grow to form a recognizable colored picture.

  46. Problem finding and discovery in science • RECOGNIZING PATTERNS • MAKING CONNECTIONS • TAKING RISKS • CHALLENGING ASSUMPTIONS • TAKING ADVANTAGE OF CHANCE • SEEING IN NEW WAYSBARRON& EISNER

  47. DISCOVERY LEARNING MESSING ABOUT ASKING QUESTIONS FORMING HYPOTHESES TESTING HYPOTHESES DRAWING CONCLUSIONS

  48. Playing around with 7-up and raisins • Take a glass of 7-up, and half a dozen raisins. Play. • What do you observe? Ask 5 questions that start with I wonder about… or I wonder what would happen if…

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