Chapter 11: Creativity, Innovation, and Leadership
Methods of Managing Creative Workers
- tools resources - flexibility and a minimum amount of structure - give feedback - employ creative people to manage and evaluate creative workers.
5 Stages of Creativity
1. opportunity or problem recognition 2. immersion 3. incubation 4. insight 5. verification and application
Factor 1 leadership practices for enhancing creativity
hire creative people from the outside, and identify creative people from within.
Factor 2 leadership practices for enhancing creativity
intellectual challenge.
Factor 7 leadership practices for enhancing creativity
organizational support.
Passion for the Task and the Experience of Flow
passion for the task and high intrinsic motivation contribute in turn to a total absorption in the work and intense concentration.
Knowledge
provide the building blocks for generating and combining ideas.
Additional Leadership Practices That Enhance Innovation
- emphasize transformational leadership - continually pursue innovation - take risks and encourage risk taking - emphasize collaboration among employees - avoid innovation for its own sake - use loose-tight leadership - integrate development and production
Characteristics of Creative Leaders
- knowledge - cognitive abilities - personality - passion for the task and the experience of flow
Practicing Creativity-Enhancing Activities
- puzzles - crossword puzzles - "what ifs" questions - learning a second language
Systematically Collecting Fresh ideas
- straightforward collection of ideas - establish idea quotas - making whiteboards regularly available for sketching ideas - granting tinkering time - use he pet-peeve technique - the morality of enhancing creativity
Overcoming Traditional Thinking as a Creativity Strategy
- thinking outside the box
Traditional Thinking
a standard and frequent way of finding a solution to a problem.
Factor 4 leadership practices for enhancing creativity
ample supply of the right resources
Factor 5 leadership practices for enhancing creativity
effective design of work groups
Factor 3 leadership practices for enhancing creativity
empowerment including freedom to choose the method.
Cognitive Abilities
facilitate at generating creative solutions to problems in a short period of time.
Factor 9 leadership practices for enhancing creativity
give financial reward for innovation.
Factor 8 leadership practices for enhancing creativity
have favorable exchanges with creative workers.
Factor 6 leadership practices for enhancing creativity
supervisory encouragement and linking innovation to performance.
Personality
tend to have a positive self-image without being blindly self-confident.
Innovation
the creation of new ideas and their implementation or commercialization.
Creativity
the production of novel and useful ideas.
