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Keynote presentation to the conference on Creativity and Innovation at the Schonbrunne Palace, Vienna
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V i e n n a, October 19th S c h ö n b r u n n pa l a c e c o n f e r e n c e c e n t r e
Developing the creative individual
in the knowledge-based society
Developing the creative individual in the knowledge
based society
Tudor Rickards
Working definitions
Creativity: The process which generates new andvaluable ideas
Innovation: The process which brings aboutchange through ‘original thinking applied’
Benign Structures: Procedures through which individuals and teams achieve valued improvements in creative performance
Theories have privileged the individual
Insight theories Self-actualization Transcendence Cognitive reframingEvolutionary psychologyInformation processingProblem-solvingExperiential learningIntrinsic motivation…
An Early View of Creativity
Early mythologies assumed creativity was a gift to ‘chosen ones’, to celebrate the ultimate creator of the Universe
“The Eureka Moment”
A long-held theory of insight
The Creative Individual
Mme Curie
Steve Jobs
Mozart
Schrödinger
Modernity forced creativityinto new responses
“Painting is washed up. Who will ever do anything better than that propeller?”
Marcel du Champs [at an early exhibition of aviationTechnology]
By the 20th Century ..
Alex Osborn(Brainstorming)
EdwardDe Bono(LateralThinking)
GenrichAltshuller(TRIZ)
Fritz Zwicky(MorphologicalAnalysis)
…systems were beingdeveloped for stimulating creativity
“Als Kreativitätstechnik ist ein Satz von Denk- und Verhaltensregeln für eine Gruppe oder ein Individuum zu verstehen, die in ihrer Gesamtwirkung das Entstehen von Ideen Begünstigen”
Quelle: Geschka (Kreativitätstechniken, 2002).
The structures became known as creativity techniques
Leadership for Creativity:The MBS studies (1980s-2000s)
MBA project team studies (1980s-2000)
Longitudinal studies (1999 - )
Leadership data base (2006 -)
Manchester Business School (West)
Project Team Leadership and The Manchester Method
The Project Team studies at MBSwere part of an educational innovation known as The Manchester Method
MBA teams ‘learn while doing’business projects’
Team tutors began to recognise consistent patterns of success and failure
Three Kinds of Team?
A small proportion of teams struggle (‘Teams from Hell’)
The majority of the teams achieve the goals set them(‘Standard Teams’)
Another minority perform beyond expectations(‘Dream Teams’)
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A Theory of Creative Leadership Emerged
It proposed two barriers to team success
Leaders who created new and benign structures for action and change
Seven team factors associatedwith team success
Creative leaders release creativity in self and others
The leader’s secret weapon is the application of personal creativity directed towards releasing more creativity in others
Leader Creativity
Creativity
Benignstructures
Creativity
Creativity
Creativity
Creativity
TeamFactors
How the Two-barrier ProposalModifies Team Development
Theory
Form
Storm
Norm and Perform
Outperform
Dysfunctionalteams
Standardteams
Outstandingteams
Weak behaviouralbarrier
Strong performancebarrier
The role of Benign Structures in Creative Leadership
Creative leaders help reconfigure the structures under which team members operate.
Team-building structures overcome inter-personal barriers and establish team norms
In a ‘dream team’, leadership provides benign structures which transcendestablished norms
More about Benign Structures
MBS project leaders introduced benign structures based on lateral thinking approaches, versions of brainstorming, mindmapping and ‘Yes and’ invitations (encouragement of positivity)
More research is required on benign structures in other kinds of situations and teams
The Seven Team FactorsInfluenced by Creative Leadership
CreativeLeadership
Platform of understanding
Vision
Climate
Idea Ownership
Resilience
Network activators
Experientiallearning
Creativity in the Knowledge Society
Great changes are emerging
Velocity of changeAmbiguities of workNetworksCo-creativityNew Business modelsSocial media
The Creative Organization
HEALTH WARNING
The creativeorganization isunder-researchedterritory
ConclusionsCreativity and Innovation are closely linked
Individuals can set up benign structures To achieve unexpectedly creative results
Co-creation will become more important
Creative organizations embed creative teams and individuals within wider social networks