Leadership and Creativity

W. R. (Bill) Klemm ()
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W. R. (Bill) Klemm: Texas A&M University

Chapter 15 in Leadership Today, 2017, pp 263-278 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Creativity is a leadership quality that should be an essential part of the job description. Leaders may not need to be creative themselves, but they need to understand key elements of the creative process (freedom/autonomy, working-memory limitations, ownership, acceptance, and creativity principles). Leaders should provide education, time, resources, and encouragement for their employees to generate many novel ideas. Leaders should make available and guide the use of specific techniques available for proper framing of tasks or problems and for stimulating the divergent and convergent thinking needed for arriving at optimal solutions for tasks and problems. The decision-making required of leaders should be delayed and focus on weeding out poor options frequently and quickly and in guiding the implementation of best ideas. Introduced here is the idea of systematically using a set of techniques known to guide idea creation and to treat ideas as a database that can be managed. The history of vaccines provides a clear and concise case study of how creative ideas emerge and evolve into commercial development.

Keywords: Initiative; Global development; Environmental degradation; Political stability; Capitalism; Transformation; Feminism; Management education; Student engagement; Transformational intent (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-31036-7_15

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