Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2019

I N AN IBM global survey of CEOs, the overwhelming consensus was that more than rigor, management discipline, integrity or even vision, successfully navigating an increasing complex world will require creativity. In a world where we must adapt or die, we need creative solutions. But realistically, creativity is not like that.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 16, 2011

While creativity is associated with artists, creativity is really part of life. Benjamin Franklin put it this way: “To cease to think creatively is but little different from ceasing to live.” While a designer will solve a problem visually, a manager may solve it by developing a new process. Creativity craves structure.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Earlier this year, I pondered what impact the new wave of AI tools might be having on our ability to think and be creative. It’s a narrative contested by a recent study from the University of Southern California, which highlights how AI can support our creativity, albeit only under certain conditions. “We

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Leadership Freak

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Leave a comment on this guest post by Jeff DeGraff to become eligible for one of 20 complimentary copies of his new book, The Creative Mindset: Mastering… Continue reading → NEW BOOK GIVEAWAY!! 20 copies available!!

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Leading Blog

MAY 18, 2021

Credited with some of the best advertising copy ever produced, Jim Morris has taken his experience in advertising and exposed in a series of essays the Agents of Stupidity that derail the process of creating, targeting, and evaluating advertising. If we make cleverness the goal—the end rather than the means—we usually fail.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 10, 2022

Despite the stereotype that creativity is the preserve of the lone genius, it is increasingly a collaborative affair. Recent research from INSEAD explores how leaders can do a better job by challenging the notion that creativity is driven from below and instead arguing that the best results tend to be when the leader drives things.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 1, 2023

Health improvements are obvious, but a less obvious boost might be in the form of enhanced creativity. Research from the University of Cambridge examined the creativity of industrial firms in China and finds that increases in air pollution are associated with decreases in innovation. or master’s degree.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The world is awash with great ideas, but while many would make the case that innovation and creativity should be repeatable activities, actually doing so is often harder than we think. They chose this field because cookbooks are not only creative endeavors, but also often labors of love. Recognizing creativity.

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Great Results Team Building

JULY 19, 2023

And the most Effective Leaders follow a repeatable, step-by-step process for clarifying and solving the right problem, emphasizing the importance of writing down and agreeing on the problem, acknowledging distracting assumptions, listing possible causes through diverse perspectives, and gaining support for implementing the solution.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

While the general consensus is that employees liked it and were reasonably productive, there are concerns about its impact on things like creativity and innovation. Affecting creativity. The results showed that in-person teams were up to 20% more creative than their virtual peers. first appeared on The Horizons Tracker.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Creativity can be a fragile endeavor, and so it’s perhaps understandable that in an ideal world the creative mind/s behind an idea would see it through to fruition so that their vision remains pure and unsullied. This process revealed quite why late handoffs are so harmful to creativity. Seeing it through.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 15, 2022

Research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison suggests that the use of AR in training could have unforeseen consequences, however, not least in terms of reducing innovation and creativity. “This failure to internalize their task then leads workers to suggest less useful process improvements.” Seeing the bigger picture.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 4, 2021

“New ties bring a positive ‘shock’ that pushes individuals in the network to change the way they organize and process knowledge, as well as the way they interact and collaborate,” the researchers say. If you have an open network, but it’s always the same people, it doesn’t work creatively. Creative team. Instability helps.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 30, 2023

However, there is one deliciously creative option that has been gaining popularity—doing a Krispy Kreme Fundraiser. Get creative in your offerings by using a variety of recipes, and ensure you deliver the sweet treats in bulk. Chocolate Bar Another creative way of getting a fundraising job done is the chocolate bar fundraising idea.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 5, 2020

Creativity has long been crucial to our enjoyment of work, but new research from the University of Jyväskylä underlines just how important it is. “The starting point of our study was that anyone can act creatively at work, and it could even be a desired activity, at least for the experts,” the researchers explain.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 15, 2019

In this chronological account beginning with the American Revolution, the genius of America’s innovative success is not only its tolerance of but also its penchant for creative destruction. The authors talk not only of the familiar product innovation but also America’s process innovation—innovation in management and organizing production.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 6, 2021

It can be tempting to think of creativity as something that arrives in a flash of inspiration, after which solutions immediately appear to our most pressing problems. Creativity cliff. The researchers wanted to explore whether there is any truth in the belief that our creativity declines with time. Mistaken perceptions.

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Engaging Leader

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Many of us are used to generating our best ideas by tapping the creativity of a group of colleagues…in the same room with a whiteboard, flipchart, or sticky notes. The interpersonal dynamics and these tactile tools help make something magical happen in the brainstorming process. How do we get the same result with a […].

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Despite what our frustrated selves might believe, constraints are a driving force behind finding creative solutions. In addition, research on individual creativity implies that we can actually open our minds to more creative ideas and better connect unrelated thoughts after we experience constraints. It’s creative potential.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 8, 2021

The research focused especially on creativity and found that we’re all capable of improving our creativity if we adopt the right mindset and have the right encouragement. Creative manufacturing. Becoming more creative. Central to our success with creativity is a learning orientation. A learning orientation.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 13, 2016

. – but how often do we describe leaders as creative? Creativity and Leadership. Although not often associated with leadership, creativity is a trait that modern leaders want to harness, as it is vitally important. It’s difficult to find the perfect balance between creativity and leadership. Creativity Killers.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

Integrating young talents into decision-making processes allows organizations to tap into valuable insights, especially pertinent in sectors like fashion, food, and retail, where younger consumer preferences are pivotal. Avoiding bureaucratic entanglements allows these young advisors to freely express their creativity and innovative ideas.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 19, 2016

Definition of Creativity. Creativity is thinking of novel and productive ways to conceptualize and do things. Why Creativity Matters. Creativity is essential for innovation. Exercising creativity to continuously improve by finding new and better ways of serving clients is something we must always strive to do.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 22, 2021

New research from the University of Rochester suggests that it might, at least, provide us with a degree of help in terms of our creativity. The researchers argue that if these algorithms instead steered us towards people with different ideas to ourselves, this would transform our creativity. Sparking creativity.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

an executive hears a presentation and immediately responds with questions, concerns, critiques and challenges, without a pause to consider the depth and breadth of work entailed, the long hours, and the creative thinking. People don’t have to follow you, don’t have to show up, and don’t have to bring their creativity or initiative.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 11, 2024

An inclusive succession plan enriches the work culture, improves decision-making, and fosters creativity, making organizations more agile in the volatile business environment. By bringing objectivity into the review process, data analytics can eliminate confirmation biases in the selection process.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 8, 2017

Brit Poulson On Answers From Leadership Podcast Episode 33 Creative conversations… What do creative conversations look like? How can you have more creative conversations? Brit Poulson and I sat down to discuss these important questions regarding creative conversations. Have Creative Conversations.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 5, 2020

” Creative help. The idea is to help writers overcome hurdles in their thinking processes. “I believe that the creative process is critical to human activities,” they say. “We talk about automating human labor, and people have the sense that automating the creative process is very difficult.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In today’s rapidly evolving social and economic landscape, many nonprofit audiences (and the organizations themselves) face greater challenges than ever, requiring strong, innovative, and creative nonprofit leaders capable of navigating complex issues with finesse and expertise.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 11, 2023

In today’s rapidly changing job market , companies are struggling to find the right words to describe new and emerging roles, leading to the invention of creative job titles. ” With creative job titles ranging from “Hero” to “Jedi,” it seems you really can be anything you want when you grow up.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

Our thought processes are full of all sorts of cognitive distortions, from catastrophizing (thinking of small problems as enormous impediments) to perfectionism, where anything less than perfect execution causes intense frustration. During this time of mental calm, we can often find the best solutions, rejuvenate and become creative.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 8, 2021

When it comes to innovation, it’s tempting to think that the latest and greatest technologies are required to facilitate the creative process. “Creativity comes from both the tool and the person who uses it.” ” Common tech.

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Engaging Leader

JANUARY 23, 2018

Leading talented people in creative fields requires a different skill set than what many management books teach. How do you ensure your team consistently delivers a brilliant work product from an inherently unpredictable creative process? How do you manage pushback from your team of super-smart, headstrong creatives?

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Persuasive Powerhouse

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

It’s so much more freeing to help open someone’s thinking to infinite, new, creative possibilities. The questions can work on your own limited thinking processes too. Once you notice that you or your employees are limiting thinking with either/or, you can unleash creativity, possibility, and new potential.

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LDRLB

MARCH 29, 2013

When I started researching creativity and innovation, one of the thought leaders I kept reading from again and again was Keith Sawyer. His book, Group Genius , was the first to truly examine collaborative creativity. His textbook, Explaining Creativity , was the first comprehensive review of creativity research.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Mostly people say they want big, new, creative ideas. They act like creative people must be stopped. Think of the process of innovation as simply a set of steps that will need to be accomplished in order to get from the stage of identifying a problem all the way through to implementing a solution.

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LDRLB

APRIL 2, 2019

One of the more fascinating findings around creativity (especially creativity at work) is how important the social environment is to whether or not individuals tap into their creativity potential. were precursors to creative ideas. Creative ideas rarely come out as fully formed amazing ideas. And most of them will.

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