Creative Leadership

Creative leadership is a leader’s ability to create environments where unexpected ideas can emerge by inspiring people as much as directing them. It is about leading creative people in creative ways.

Why managers reject new ideas

Why managers reject new ideas

In 1925 Richard Drew was told by his boss to stop working on a new kind of masking tape. In 1970 Gary Starkweather was forbidden from pursuing laser printing. In 1975 Steven Sasson’s management found the first digital camera amusing…

Curiosity in leadership

Curiosity in leadership

Curiosity in leadership has become the capability every organisation claims to want and almost no organisation actually hands out. I have watched the same scene in workshop after workshop. A senior team declares that questions are welcome, then spends the…