Tag: Creative Intelligence

How Creative Leaders Lead

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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Creative leaders encourage their people to take risks, to try new things. They are not against mistakes.

People are more creative when they trust the process, when they are supported by their colleagues.

As a leader, according to Ed Catmull, ‘You cannot address the obstacles to candor until people feel free to say that they exist (and using the word honesty makes it harder to talk about those barriers).

‘A hallmark of a healthy creative culture is that its people feel free to share ideas, opinions, and criticisms. Lack of candor, if unchecked, ultimately leads to dysfunctional environments.’

‘We have to think about failure differently.’

‘To disentangle the good and the bad parts of failure, we have to recognize both the reality of the pain and the benefit of the resulting growth.’

‘If you create a fearless culture (or as fearless as human nature will allow), people will be much less hesitant to explore new areas, identifying uncharted pathways and then charging down them.’

‘It isn’t enough to pick a path- you must go down it.’

‘When experimentation is seen as necessary and productive, not as a frustrating waste of time, people will enjoy their work- even when it is confounding them.’

‘Trusting others doesn’t mean that they won’t make mistakes. It means that if they do (0r if you do), you trust they will act to help solve it.’

‘Leaders must demonstrate their trustworthiness, over time, through their actions- and the best way to do that is by responding well to failure.’

‘Fear can be created quickly; trust can’t’

‘By sharing problems and sensitive issues with employees, we make them partners and part-owners in our culture, and they do not want to let each other down.’

‘When we are honest, people know it.’

‘To confide in employees is to give them a sense of ownership over the information.’

Source:

Ed Catmull (2014). Creativity Inc. : Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

Generating More Ideas

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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Ideas are everywhere. But ‘to create something novel, you must know what already exists.’

‘A thorough understanding of the subject matter allows anyone to understand the familiar baseline of their medium.’

‘If seeing something more makes you like it more, how can we use that to create hits?’

‘The more we’re exposed to something, the less we fear it.’

‘Familiarity doesn’t make us like things more. Rather, it makes us fear things less.’

‘The individuals who ultimately become known as creative geniuses know to abandon ideas long before they ever reach this point.’

When you peocess things deeply, you take time to evaluate them, and your competing emotions involving familiarity and novelty come into play.’

‘Experience makes generating ideas easier, but what happens if you don’t have experience?

‘Consumption provides the fuel. But how do you turn that fuel into conscious ideas?’

‘Structure, formulas, patterns, recipes, norms, and so forth aren’t a burden at all; in fact, they’re widely considered tools of the craft.’

‘Creation mostly has to do with the adaptation of something familiar. ‘There aren’t many truly original ideas. Originality and creativity are really just about clever remixes.”

Constraints, in fact, enable a ‘remix culture.’

Source:

Allen Gannett (2018). The Creative Curve: How to Develop the Right Idea, at the Right Time