Why Creative Leadership?

Creative leaders search for and → discover opportunities, introduce positive → change and make quantum leaps forward in creating new products and processes.

→ Entrepreneurial Leader: 4 Attributes

→ How To Overcome Resistance to Change: Kore 10 Tips

"The environment in which we live is changing rapidly and in unpredictable ways. Individuals who are → creative are able to bring about change and visualize future opportunities. Creative leaders are a critical resource needed to → find answers to difficult → problems. They are the ones who can navigate the future. They are able to embrace ambiguity and reframe problems as → opportunities. They have competencies that include how to read and understand the environment, build alliances, recognize the importance of social responsibility, manage complexity, use information technology, and encourage creativity. Increasingly, → leaders are using a proactive stance in taking their organizations into uncharted territory," says Alan Rowe.¹

→ Results-based Leadership

→ Systemic Innovation: 7 Areas

Using Strategic Intent to Motivate Idea Generation

Strategic intent is senior management's primary motivational tool for radical idea generation. Senior management uses strategic intent to → communicate a misfit between current resources and corporate aspirations and motivate idea generation when it actively encourages the quest for new opportunities.

→ Energize Others

The Jazz of Innovation 

The improvisation-driven model for innovation project management doesn’t discard structure, just as there is a clear structure to good jazz.

→ The Jazz of Innovation

→ The Jazz of Innovation: 11 Guiding Principles

In innovation, this structure is created through roadmaps, guiding principles, business processes, systems and organizational charts.

Strategic planning and road-mapping processes cannot guarantee brilliant flashes of creative insight, but they can prepare minds and increase the odds that such flashes occur in real time. Thus structure, as chords do in jazz, serves as a basis for improvisation, experimentations, discoveries and innovation...  More

KoRe 10 Innovative Thinking Tools

KoRe 10 Tools help innovators approach creation of entrepreneurial strategies and anticipation of opponents' moves more systematically. The Kore 10 Tools help also  innovation leaders and radical project managers strengthen and synergize the most important areas of innovation... More

 25 Lessons from Jack Welch 

To → Jack Welch, the former legendary CEO of GE, a good leader who can make people feel that they really are contributing members of a team, that is working toward a shared and worthwhile goal can unleash huge stores of positive energy. Welch called them "rewards for the soul," which, he pointed out, also needed to be accompanied by "rewards for the wallet."... More

→ 25 Lessons from Jack Welch

 Google: 10 Golden Rules

Encourage creativity. Google engineers can spend up to 20 percent of their time on a project of their choice. There is, of course, an approval process and some oversight, but basically we want to allow creative people to be creative. One of our not-so-secret weapons is our ideas mailing list: a companywide suggestion box where people can post ideas ranging from parking procedures to the next killer app. The software allows for everyone to comment on and rate ideas, permitting the best ideas to percolate to the top... More

→ Entrepreneurial Creativity: 4 Keys

Leader as Servant

You cannot lead people unless they are willing to follow you. People will trust you if you help them achieve more, unleash their creativity and bring out their own sense of worth... More

Lateral Leadership

A lateral leader is a kind of person who mastered lateral thinking skills and can create a climate for creativity and to transform your organization into a powerhouse of innovation. A lateral leader inspires people to have the confidence to take risk, energizes people, and can help them develop their skills in creative techniques.

Major Leadership Styles

Entrepreneurial Creativity

Your entrepreneurial creativity is a synergistic combination of your four capabilities:

• Creative thinking skills

• Cross-functional expertise

• Internal motivation... More

Creative Problem Solving 

One of the key functions of the corporate executive is to → solve problems and make decisions with a high level of competence.

→ Smart & Fast Decision Maker

Your ability to deal with problems → creatively and effectively is a most important determinant of your success as a manager and a corporate leader... More