participation and creativity
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Creativity: The Extra Ingredient
Creativity has been allied to ..
• Madness• Mystery• Muses• Magic
A Proposition
• Creativity provides the extra ingredient permitting enhanced performance by individuals, teams, organizations, and cultures
Definitions
• Discovery processes leading to new and unexpectedly valuable ideas
• ‘Looking where all have looked, and seeing what no one has seen’
Creativity Components
Person Process
Place(or ‘Press’)
Product
Many and VariedTheories
• Insight theories • Self-actualization • Transcendence • Cognitive reframing• Darwinism• Information processing• Problem-solving• Experiential learning
Insight Theories: Scientific Discoveries
• Preparation (Knowledge, experience)• Incubation (‘Gestation’) • Insight (large or small)• Validation (Design and testing actions)
Intal and Dr RogerAltunyian
Foresight Theories
• Insight• Cognitive reframing• Intuition• Serendipity
Creativity: The Big Questions
• How can I become more creative?• How can my team become more creative?• How can my organization become more creative?• How can my society or culture become more creative?
The Creative Individual
• The Elitist view: Special and gifted people are born creative (The gifted and talented school)
• The Developmental view: Everyone has the potential to fulfil their creative abilities (Carl Rogers)
The Creative Individual
• Developing Intuitive Skills through Lateral Thinking methodology involves deliberate confronting the unlikely and the impossible
The Creative Team
• Teamwork is increasingly seen as the organizational structure for focusing and targeting collective creativity
Enhancing Participation and Team Creativity
• Researchers at MBS have studied a modification to Tuckman’s stage model
• It proposes two barriers to creativity which teams must overcome
• Only a minority of teams do so
The Two-barrier model of team development (MBS)
Form
Storm
Unexpectedly good (creative) performance
Performance barrier
Behavioral barrier
Norm and Perform
Distributed Leadership
• Recently the idea of distributed leadership suggests that a team may collectively act as a ‘superleader’ (Manz & Sims)
The Creative Organization
• Creative industries, and their organizations have increased in importance
• They are fast-growing economically• They include architecture; arts & antiques: Design,
Performing Arts, Electronic games and media
The creative organization: Toyota
The Creative Organization: Haier
The Creative Organization: WordPress
• WordPress is a good example of an entrepreneurial and creative organization …supplying an easy-to-use service for bloggers
• Its growth supports ‘infection’ theories of creativity
The Creative Organization: Ideo
• IDEO created Apple's first mouse; Microsoft's second mouse, and the Palm V PDA. Other major clients include Procter & Gamble, PepsiCo, and Eli Lilly
The Creative Culture
• Culture has always developed around creative hotspots of artistic and scientific discovery
• Athens, London, Cambridge(s), Silicon Valley, ‘Madchester’ ..
The Creative Climate and Intrinsic Motivation
• Teresa Amabile proposed a theory of intrinsic motivation.
• A creative climate allows intrinsic motivation to flourish. • ‘The play’s the thing’ (contrary to economic theories).
The Creative Culture
• ‘A key driving factor in the divergence or flow of human capital is … the openness of a given location. The more open a place is, the more it will be able to capture the talents of its own people and to attract those from elsewhere.’ (Richard Florida)
Creative Clusters*
*Source: Richard Florida
Creative Clusters
And Finally…
• When all else fails remember...
• there must be other ways…
• there might be better ways
To go more deeply• Journals• Creativity Research Journal• http://www.questia.com/library/jp-creativity-research-• Creativity and Innovation Management
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0963-1690&site=1
• Journal of Creative Behavior http://www.creativeeducationfoundation.org/jcb.shtml
• On Line reference sources http://leaderswedeserve.wordpress.com/ explores creativity and creative leadership
• http://www.buffalostate.edu/creativity/pucciogj.xml?username=pucciogj (‘The international center for studies in creativity’)