How to kill creativity in your organization
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The document discusses the importance of creativity in companies and identifies several practices that can kill it, such as role mismatch, mismanaging freedom, and lack of support. It highlights the components of creativity: expertise, motivation, and creative thinking skills, while citing a need to overcome mental locks that hinder creative thinking. The text emphasizes that fostering an environment that encourages diverse ideas and recognizes innovative efforts is crucial for enhancing creativity in the workplace.
How to kill creativity in your organization
- 1. How to kill creativity in your company
- 3. nexus training solutions Akram Saad founding partner & buisness development director { entrepreneur founder director speaker trainer experinced
- 4. nexus training solutions Akram Saad founding partner & buisness development director { entrepreneur founder director speaker trainer experinced Creativity & Innovation addict
- 5. nexus training solutions Akram Saad founding partner & buisness development director { entrepreneur founder director speaker trainer experinced Creativity & Innovation addict
- 6. question: What is creativity & how does it work?
- 7. question: What is creativity & how does it work? Do we really kill creativity? and how?
- 8. creativity: cre·a·tiv·i·ty n. the ability to use imagination to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships, or the like, and to create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods.
- 9. Not Just For Starving Artists In 2009/2010 IBM interviewed over 1,500 CEOs around the globe. Creativity was cited as the #1 most important leadership quality over the next 5 years.
- 11. The three components of Creativity expertise motivation creative thinking skills where the magic happens
- 12. knowledge The three components of Creativity expertise motivation creative thinking skills where the magic happens
- 13. knowledge flexibility & imagination The three components of Creativity expertise motivation creative thinking skills where the magic happens
- 14. knowledge flexibility & imagination intrinsic & extrinsic The three components of Creativity expertise motivation creative thinking skills where the magic happens
- 17. an employee in a large company The story of ali
- 18. he thought he will be a superman the story of ali
- 19. but actually he got shot The story of ali
- 20. 1. ROLE MISMATCH
- 21. The most eligible employee is wed to the most eligible assignment
- 22. The most eligible employee is wed to the most eligible assignment& open urgent
- 24. managers tend to change goals freqently or fail to define them clearly
- 25. managers claim that employees are empwored to explore the maze but implicitely communicate that new methods are not welcome
- 27. set impossible short deadlines or by restricting resources to minimum
- 31. failing to acknowledge innovative efforts and meet the new ideas with time consuming layers of evaluation or even harsh criticism
- 32. 6. NO SUPPORT
- 33. LETTING POLITICAL PROBLEMS, INFIGHTINGS AND GOSSIP FESTER IN THE ORGANIZATION
- 34. why ali couldn t think of something different ’
- 35. ’ WE DON T NEED TO BE CREATIVE FOR MOST OF WHAT WE DO ’
- 36. ’ WE DON T NEED TO BE CREATIVE FOR MOST OF WHAT WE DO ’
- 37. ’ WE HAVEN T BEEN TAUGHT TO BE CREATIVE ’
- 38. ’ OUR OWN BELIEF SYSTEMS MAY PREVENT US FROM THINKING SOMETHING DIFFERENT
- 39. MENTAL LOCKS thinking more Of the same
- 40. The Creative Method & Systems the one right answer mentality
- 41. “Heraclitus when there is no sun we can see the evening stars
- 42. That s Not Logial’
- 43. “ edward de bono if some one says he has learned to think, most of us assume that he means he has learned to think logically.
- 44. FOLLOW THE RULES
- 45. “ robert frost two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
- 46. BE PRACTICAL
- 47. “w.i. beveridge the human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with similar energy
- 48. That s not my area of expertise ’ ’
- 49. “heraclitus lovers of wisdom must open their minds to very many things.
- 50. don t be foolish’
- 51. “alfred sloan when everyone thinks alike, no one is doing very much thinking.
- 52. The Creative Method & Systems to err is wrong
- 53. “Roger von oech we are taught that right answer are good and incorrect answers are bad
- 54. i am not creative
- 55. “Epictetus what concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
- 56. thank you & have a nice day