creativity & innovation week 8
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Creativity &Innovation
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Class 8
Play A Game
Mid-Term
Roll + Admin
Lecture: Pages 75-83
Assignment
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Make a Better Mid-
Term
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Mid-Term Requirements
1 hour to develop a mid-term exam
Reference slides, book and SLO’s
Develop 25 Q&A’s, 25 points (manage team)
(10) True/False, (15) Multiple Choice
Questions, Answers in e-document
Evaluate teams members 1-5
Submit as group project, names, scores
Mid-Term Exam
Take your group exam
Honor code
20-minutes to complete
Turn in test when completed
Reading Assignment: Chapter 6
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Leadership: Fostering Systemic Creativity
Chapter 6 of Creativity, Inc.
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Fostering Systemic Creativity
Class Discussion
Pooty Tang
Fostering Systemic Creativity
Guidant: Leaders want to maintain an entrepreneurial character
Company grows large enough that bureaucracy threatens to dampen speed, risk taking, atmosphere
“We could see some of the entrepreneurial nature of our company fading, and we needed to catch it in time.”
“We could lose people as we scaled up.”
“If we didn’t stay creative, we would not survive.”
Fostering Systemic Creativity
Less pressure, more holistic
Assess current state of creativity
Convened staff, focus groups
Examined companies with reputations for ongoing creativity
Examined self vs. creative profiles
Examined models of corporate structure
Bottom up approach
Fostering Systemic Creativity
“The idea is for everyone to learn to understand that they are responsible people in a changing world, to show how to take control of their lives and their work, and how to speak what they believe.”
Next round of training is planned to focus directly on building skills for creativity and innovation, skills that can be applied for personal growth and the company’s benefit by individuals and groups.
Reward and recognize those who succeed.
Fostering Systemic Creativity
To reward the team and to encourage others, the team was recognized.
Systemic creativity is a never-ending quest – why?
What can you do?
How can you foster change in your groups?
How will you make creativity happen at your company?
Fostering Systemic Creativity
To reward the team and to encourage others, the team was recognized.
Systemic creativity is a never-ending quest – why?
What can you do?
How can you foster change in your groups?
How will you make creativity happen at your company?
Fostering Systemic Creativity
Initially, we present creative dynamics in a sequence
The creative process is better understood as a whole.
Best learned experientially, like riding a bike, rather than reading about how to ride a bike.
Every chance to learn the process from a different angle makes for more comprehension.
Fostering Systemic Creativity
Theory X = Employees need to be controlled to produce good work. Employees respond to extrinsic
motivation or coercion, were not to be trusted or self-directed.
Theory Y = Employees want and need to excel and require the right organizational (global, local) climate to do so.
Where is management today?
Fostering Systemic Creativity
Leaders need to confer responsibility and capability of creative leadership on every employee.
When each employee can engage with the (systemic) creative process and feels like they are a part of change THEN the company will reach systemic creativity.
When this (systemic) process is in place and functioning it can THEN work on refining the process.
Fostering Systemic Creativity
To foster creativity companies must: Reduce Unnecessary controls Adopt creative-friendly reward
systems Instill attitudes about efficiency and
failure Communicate the value of creative
change Provide tangible and intangible
resources Lead as a guide, not manage as a
manager
Fostering Systemic Creativity
1. Initiate Change
2. Build a Coalition
3. Plan and Experiment
As the change to systemic creativity advances, effective guiding, leadership will make a point to learn from every step.
Without a conscious effort to learn there will be no creativity or innovation.
Reading Assignment: Chapter 7
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Read The Innovation Value Chain
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