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Myth of creative genius
From the course: Management Tips
Myth of creative genius
- A lot of people think that if you want to boost the creativity in your team or organization, what you have to do is work hard to find one of the elusive creative people out there and hire them. I'll admit that for any given vocation, there are some very creative people, but the truth is that high creativity is pretty rare, and creative geniuses are almost nonexistent. Focusing on this approach to boosting creativity often blinds us from pursuing the very best approach to boosting creativity, and that's learning how to manage everyone on the team in a manner that maximizes their creative potential. You see, every one of us has a particular level of creative ability in our chosen vocational area. The problem is that we go to work every day and perceive many types of risks associated with actually trying to be creative. So, we choose not to engage our ability in this area. We fear being negatively evaluated for our creative ideas. We fear that others will just see us as causing waves…
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Becoming a change agent2m 59s
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Finding targets for innovation2m 45s
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Assessing your organization's change readiness2m 50s
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Embracing failure2m 33s
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Developing your creativity3m 6s
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Breaking through with brainstorming3m 16s
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Embracing the devil's advocate2m 50s
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Managing creative talent3m 2s
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Fighting bureaucracy3m 6s
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Not all best practices are best2m 57s
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Diversity’s real power2m 6s
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Initiating change conversations2m 57s
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Creating needed debate3m 2s
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Knowing when to engage positive conflict2m 42s
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Myth of creative genius2m 44s
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Changing routines to build new thought2m 41s
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Making risk feel like learning2m 47s
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The difference between creativity and innovation3m 10s
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People don't hate change2m 47s
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Advocating for the unpopular2m 20s
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The upside of limited resources2m 54s
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Understanding change capacity2m 24s
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Picking a successful fight at work2m 19s
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Start, stop, change2m 44s
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