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.
Simon Sinek is probably the best known business speaker on the planet, and the clearest popconsultant example available to anyone who wants to study the trade. His 2009 TED talk, How great leaders inspire action, sits among the most watched…
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 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…