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3 Ways Leaders Accidentally Undermine Their Teams’ Creativity

Harvard Business Review

Researchers have developed a variety of different models of creativity, from the Osborn-Parnes creative problem-solving method to design thinking. It’s easy to look at models like that and think that cohesion and friendliness should be the ultimate goal. These ideas may seem counter-intuitive at first.

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The “Smart Society” of the Future Doesn’t Look Like Science Fiction

Harvard Business Review

To answer these questions, we began with a simple premise: Neither “smartness” nor the technology to be deployed is the end goal. What are the implications for policy makers, particularly as they consider digital technology — whose applications are growing at an accelerated pace — as a lever for getting to smartness?