Leading Blog

APRIL 19, 2024

Variety will increase the perceived goodness of our lives and trigger creativity. Variety will increase the perceived goodness of our lives and trigger creativity. We can increase creative thought by inducing small changes to our routines and environments. This is also true when changes are seemingly desirable.”

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Leading Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

During this time of mental calm, we can often find the best solutions, rejuvenate and become creative. When my energy is low, my favorite technique to rejuvenate and unleash creativity is to close my eyes and allow my attention to gently float in my brain.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 31, 2024

2 Simple Writing Momentum Hacks by @wallybock How Failure Feeds Creativity Being right all the time is killing creativity. And this will get worse with AI. Legitimacy Crisis of US Politics Looms by @jamesstrock Rising Independent Voter Numbers Are Fire Bell in the Night Not Sure Where to Start with Your AI Strategy?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Unleash your creativity: Have you ever been asked to “think outside the box”? If you are artistic and creative, that statement most likely gets you excited. This is the essence of creativity, although it goes well beyond problem-solving. To be a wildly successful visionary, you must not fear creativity.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 11, 2024

Source: Brave Together: Lead by Design, Spark Creativity, and Shape the Future with the Power of Co-Creation II. People running full speed toward their dreams know this feeling. But it’s fleeting. It doesn’t last if it’s not built with others, co-created.”

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Leading Blog

JUNE 23, 2023

While all new markets hold the promise of creative new growth and jobs, helping to close the jobs gap, those based on disruptive creation do so at the cost of existing jobs in the short to medium term.” Third, nondisruptive creators look for creative ideas from anyone and everyone, not just from the “creative types.” “It

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Jeremy Utley and Perry Klebahn on creativity: “Regardless of exactly how you define creativity, the key thing is that we never create out of whole cloth. Source: What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential II.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 31, 2023

by @suzimcalpine Ten Critical Keys For Designing a Creative Culture by @PhilCooke Fifty Something with More Gas Left in the Career Tank But Need a Change? And if you haven’t, it could be time you need to!)

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Leading Blog

MARCH 21, 2024

Source: Both/And Thinking: Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. We avoid the information or ideas that raised the uncertainty in the first place. That is, we turn to either/or thinking seeking to minimize the uncertainty, and thereby the threat.”

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Barbara Kellerman on the context of leadership: “We need to think of leadership as a creative act for which leaders and followers both are educated, for which leaders and followers both are prepared over a lifetime of learning.” Source: Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family II.

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Leading Blog

MAY 27, 2021

Teresa Amabile on how to kill creativity: “Organizations routinely kill creativity with fake deadlines or impossibly tight ones. Moreover, creativity often takes time. Managers who do not allow time for exploration or do not schedule in incubation periods are unwittingly standing in the way of the creative process.”.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 22, 2023

Scott Barry Kaufman and Carolyn Gregoire on mindful daydreaming: “It may be wise to question whether we should always be living in the moment and whether this is the best way to foster creative thinking. Source: Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind II.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Brave Together : Lead by Design, Spark Creativity, and Shape the Future with the Power of Co-Creation by Chris Deaver and Ian Clawson How did Apple overcome a culture of secrecy? Why do companies kill creativity? What if instead we focused on working creatively with others? How did Pixar out-innovate Disney? But it's not true.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

You’re The Boss or Client: Here’s How You Should Respond to Creative Work by @philCooke See more on Twitter. * * * Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Humility stimulates creativity. Humility promotes objectivity. Pride lives in denial and ignores the truth. Humility increases teachability. Pride is close-minded and defensive. Pride lives inside our heads. Humility expands flexibility. Pride is rigid and demands my way. Humility boosts team morale.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2024

Smile and Keep Marching by @artpetty Yes, you’re creative! by @wallybock My Top 10 Tips For Achieving Predictable Success by Les McKeown @PredSuccess The Real Price of Success by @SahilBloom See more on Twitter. * * * Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Creativity Can’t. by Ernie Schenck @joguzucoryqa via @CommArts Feel Like Running Away?

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Leading Blog

MARCH 30, 2023

Source: Leading with Heart: Five Conversations That Unlock Creativity, Purpose, and Results * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Transparency can be conflated with having no privacy. Honesty can be conflated with oversharing. And inclusion can be conflated with consensus.”

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 11, 2021

IABCD if you are into that) “Our innate talent, creativity, and drive combined with discipline are what make us forces of nature.”. We wither, and we begin to suffer from creative constipation. Creative constipation is exactly what it sounds like. There are consequences to not doing our best work.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Supercharge Your Creativity. Caring for yourself can boost your productivity, memory, focus, creativity, empathy, and decision-making—in other words, your overall effectiveness as a leader.” Be open to new ideas. Understand, too, that some people will not like some of the decisions. Act like a start-up. Seek Help. “In

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Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

Doesn’t micromanaging and process smother creativity? Perhaps more significantly, he also pushed each of the company’s business units to infuse AI capabilities throughout their offerings. Fact #2: Innovation Thrives in Structure To most people, this fact seems counterintuitive. Innovation powerhouses don’t leave innovation up to chance.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

Steven Kotler on achieving the art of the impossible: “Motivation is what gets you into the game; learning is what helps you continue to play; creativity is how you steer; and flow is how you turbo-boost the results beyond all rational standards and reasonable expectations.” Source: No Bullsh!t t Leadership II.

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Leading Blog

JULY 31, 2023

Here are a selection of tweets from July 2023 that you will want to check out: 37 Rules for Maximizing Impact, Influence, and Performance by @AlanSteinJr Taking Over a Toxic Workplace by Michael Lombardi @mlombardiNFL Boss’s Tip of the Week: Look for the Pony from @wallybock Breaking Out of a Personal Creativity Slump—Restarting Your Idea Machine by (..)

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Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2019

In Creative Construction , Gary Pisano says that when big organizations fail to innovate, the root cause is often related to “management practice and leadership than with organizational scale per se.” Creative Construction is the process of sustaining and rejuvenating an existing organization’s innovative capabilities.

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Leading Blog

MAY 12, 2023

Those options revolve around four basic stances : Lean In (take an active stance), Lean Back (take an analytical stance), Lean With (collaborate with others), and Don’t Lean (be still and take in all that is around and within you to that creative wisdom can surface). The stance you employ needs to match the needs of the people you are with.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 31, 2021

by @StephanieVozza Creative Thinking in both Science and the Arts Is Not for the Faint of Heart by Avi Loeb via @sciam The Five Building Blocks of the Healthy Working Environment by @artpetty What Apple TV’s New Series "Foundation" Can Teach You About The Fate of U.S.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 16, 2023

The Creative Act : A Way of Being by Rick Rubin - (January 2023) Finding the Way : The Entrepreneur's Tale by Cap Treeger - (January 2023) Good Power : Leading Positive Change in Our Lives, Work, and World by Ginni Rometty - (March 2023) An Ordinary Man : The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R.

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Leading Blog

JULY 9, 2021

I MAGINATION is unique to humans and is key to creativity and innovation. In a time when elementary students today will be working in jobs that haven’t yet been created, imagination is the path forward. Imagination is the ability to picture that which doesn’t exist.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

Curiosity is the lifeblood of creativity. I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Architect Frank Gehry on curiosity: “Question everything. Growing up as a Jew, I studied the Talmud, which continually poses questions.

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Leading Blog

MAY 31, 2021

Ten Critical Keys For Designing a Creative Culture by @PhilCooke. Why Your Crisis Is The Key To Your Creativity by @PhilCooke. The Blight of Soul-Crushing Useless Negative Feedback by @davidmdye. Harnessing the Power of Purpose in Your Work by @artpetty. How To Use Hope To Overcome Stress and Anxiety by @LaRaeQuy.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Twelve simple hacks to restore energy, enthusiasm, and creativity. When we get our blood pumping through our bodies, there is evidence to suggest that walking rather than sitting will clear our heads and increase our creativity by up to 60%. The fundamental problem is that we simply aren’t practicing behaviors that recharge us.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 13, 2023

To make the most of a turbulent world we need to be able to balance our emotions with a rational and deliberate thought process in real time that allow us to learn and thoughtfully and creatively move through the circumstance or what authors Jacqueline Brassey, Aaron De Smet, and Michael Kruyt, call Deliberate Calm. Here’s the problem.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Source: The Creative Act: A Way of Being II. The awareness happens first as a pure connection with the object of your attention. If something strikes me as interesting or beautiful, first I live that experience. Only afterward might I attempt to understand it.”

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Leading Blog

JUNE 25, 2020

The robots are the most visual example of Bezos’s obsession with automating whatever he can to free his employees to work on more creative tasks.”. The future puts a value on inventiveness—creativity, originality, and initiative. Amazon currently employs over 200,000 robots to work alongside a workforce of approximately 800,000 humans.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

from @JohnBaldoni Use the History of Leadership to Lead Better Today by @Mark_Sanborn The Russia-Ukraine War After Year One by @jamesstrock 2 Lessons From the Philadelphia Eagles in Defeat by @mlombardiNFL via @TheDaily_Coach As leaders, we also learned two things on Sunday: Accept responsibility and win or learn The One Thing You Can Do Which Will (..)

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The top half of the circle are the 18 Creative Competencies that lead to leadership effectiveness. First and foremost, we have to consciously move our leadership from reactive to creative. In their study, High-Creative leaders consistently demonstrated the following 10 strengths. They underuse their High-Creative strengths.

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Leading Blog

MAY 31, 2023

Will AI Kill Human Creativity? by @UzziLeadership via @KelloggSchool What Fake Drake tells us about what’s ahead. Looking the Part, Being the Part by @James_Albright 5 Things To Quit To Become More Successful by @JosephLalonde Identity Politics Comes for Tim Scott by @jamesstrock | Social Conservatives Join the Attack on One of Their Own.

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