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Chapter 11: Creativity, Innovation, and Leadership - Coggle Diagram
Chapter 11: Creativity, Innovation, and Leadership
Characteristics of Creative Leaders
Knowledge
: provides the building blocks for generating and combining ideas.
Cognitive Abilities
: comprise abilities as general intelligence and abstract reasoning. Creative people are facile in generating creative solutions to problems in a short period of time.
Intuition
: an experienced-based way of knowing or reasoning in which weighing and balancing evidence are done unconsciously and automatically.
Personality
: the noncognitive aspects of an individual heavily influence creative problem solving.
Passion for the Task and Experience of Flow
: a dominant characteristic of creative people that is closely related to personality is passion for the work.
Experience of Work
: an experience so engrossing and enjoyable that the task becomes worth doing for its own sake regardless of consequences.
Systematically Collecting Fresh Ideas
Straightforward collection of ideas
: basic way of collecting fresh ideas is for employees to furnish them to a company database for when someone needs a new and fresh idea they can be accessed through a company search engine.
Establishing Idea Quotas
: in order to facilitate fresh ideas the leader or manager can establish idea quotas. Idea quotas are a goal and an excellent creativity stimulant.
Making Whiteboards Available for Sketching Ideas
: companies encourage employees to doodle their ideas and draw diagrams to explain complicated concepts to colleagues in fields.
Granting Tinkering Time
: collecting fresh ideas is to allocate an amount or percentage of time for employees to think and experiment.
Methods of Managing Creative Workers
Give Creative People Tools and Resources that Allow their Work to Stand Out
: to achieve high quality works employees usually need adequate resources such as updated equipment and an ample travel budget to conduct research.
Give Creative People Flexibility and Minimum Amount of Structure
: creative workers regard heavy structure as the death knell of creativity. Creating structure will help to achieve a workable compromise that stays within the framework of organizational policy.
Give Gentle Feedback when Turning Down an Idea
: creative employees are emotionally involved with their work, they are likely to interpret criticism as a personal attack on their self-worth.
Employ Creative People to Manage and Evaluate Creative Workers
: managers of creative workers should have some creative ability of their own so that they can understand creativity and be credible as leaders.
Leadership Practices Focused on Specifically Enhancing Innovation
Emphasize Transformational Leadership if Possible
: transformational leaders create an environment of change and growth.
Continually Pursue Innovation
: company leaders stay alert to innovative possibilities. Innovation is important because new technology can make an industry obsolete or place it in grave danger.
Take Risks and Encourage Risk Taking
: it is necessary to gamble intelligently, shrewdly, and selectively, even during a period of insecurity and instability.
Emphasize Collaboration Among Employees
: most innovations stem from networks, the workers needed for the innovation are often dispersed throughout the organization. Choosing the right leader for a project can be the key to a collaboration.