Creative Leadership - encourage and align creativity of employees

Creative Leadership

Encourage and align creativity of employees

Leadership is the art of creating powerful human currents moving enthusiastically and creatively in the right direction.

~ Vadim Kotelnikov

Why Creative Leadership

Creative leaders are proactive futurists who discover opportunities, initiate positive change, and inspire intrapreneurs to contribute to quantum leaps forward in creating innovative solutions.

Creative Leaders have great competitive advantage in today's rapidly changing economy and often unpredictable global environment.

Example

Karlson as a Creative Leader of Roofland

Roolfanders promised to listen to the adults down on the ground – not to obey blindly, but to adapt what was useful and add Rooflander‑style value to it.

"Adults know things," Karlson said, "but Rooflanders know fun. Combine both – and you get magic."

As an inspirational, creative, empowering, and inclusive leader, Karlson mostly led from behind. He loved to start an adventure, then step aside so the young Rooflanders could invent the rest on their own "You’re clever enough," he'd say with a wink, "and I’m hungry enough to watch."... More

"All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them." ~ Charles Schwab

"Knowing how to lead and work with creative people requires knowledge and action that often goes against the typical organizational structure. Protect unusual people from bureaucracy and legalism typical of organizations." ~ Max DePree

Creative, flexible, and entrepreneurial leaders are able to invent next-level business models, anticipate future opportunities, bring about change proactively, and navigate the future. They can also create the future proactively.

Creative leaders are a distinctive competitive advantage of an organization. These disruptive and victorious thinkers and venturepreneurs can take their organizations into uncharted territory. They able to address challenges effectively and reframe problems as opportunities.

Creative leaders know that growth 10+ is people 10+. They provide a strategic direction, empower employees and encourage creativity. Creative leaders often use strategic intent to motivate generation of radical ideas. They create a space for intrapreneurship and ensure strategic alignment of all intrapreneurial initiatives.

→ How To Lead Creative People

Coaching by Example

My 10-3-1 Strengths

Mission-driven Innovator

Example: Google's 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

How To Stimulate Generation of Radical Ideas

Establish the spirit of relentless growth and a culture of creative dissatisfaction in your organization. Create a questioning culture and encourage people to ask "Why?", "What If?" and searching questions continuously... 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... More