How to kill creativity in your organization

How tokill creativity

in your company

Introduction& thank-you

nexus training solutionsAkram Saad

founding partner & buisness development director

{entrepreneurfounderdirectorspeakertrainer

experinced

nexus training solutionsAkram Saad

founding partner & buisness development director

{entrepreneurfounderdirectorspeakertrainer

experinced

Creativity &Innovationaddict

question:What is creativity

& how

does it work?

question:What is creativity

& how

does it work?

Do we really kill creativity? and how?

creativity: \creativity\ n. the ability to use imagination to transcend traditional

ideas, rules, patterns, relationships, or the like, and to create meaningful new

ideas, forms, methods.

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.

expertise

creativethinkingskills

motivation

The three componentsof Creativity



expertise

motivation


where themagic happens


knowledge


expertise

motivation




knowledge

flexibility &imagination


expertise

motivation




knowledge

flexibility &imagination

intrinsic &extrinsic


expertise

motivation



creativity-killing practices

an employee ina large company

The story of ali

he thought he willbe a superman

thestory of ali

but actuallyhe got shot

Thestory of ali

1.ROLEMISMATCH

The most eligible employee is wed to the

most eligible assignment

The most eligible employee is wed to the

most eligible assignment& open

urgent

2.MISS MANAGINGTHE FREEDOM

managers tend to change goals freqently

or fail to define them clearly

managers claim that employees are empwored to explore the maze but implicitely communicate

that new methods are not welcome

3.ROTIONRESOURCES

set impossible short deadlines or by

restricting resources to minimum

4.REDUCE GROUPDIVERSITY

ASSEMBLE HOMOGENOUS TEAMS

5.NOENCOURAGEMENT

failing to acknowledge

innovative efforts and meet the new

ideas with time consuming layers of evaluation or even

harsh criticism

6.NOSUPPORT

LETTING POLITICAL PROBLEMS, INFIGHTINGS

AND GOSSIP FESTER IN THE ORGANIZATION

why alicouldn tthink of somethingdifferent

WE DON T NEED TO BE CREATIVE FOR MOST OF WHAT WE DO

WE HAVEN T BEEN TAUGHTTO BE CREATIVE

OUR OWN BELIEF SYSTEMS MAYPREVENT US FROM THINKING SOMETHING DIFFERENT

MENTAL LOCKSthinking moreOf the same

The Creative Method & Systems

the one right answer mentality

Heraclitus

when there is no sun we can see the evening stars

That s Not Logial

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.

FOLLOW THE RULES

robert frost

two roads diverged in a wood, and I I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

BE PRACTICAL

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

That s not my area of

expertise

heraclitus

lovers of wisdom must open their minds to very many things.

don t be foolish

alfred sloan

when everyone thinks alike, no one is doing very much thinking.

The Creative Method & Systems

to err is wrong

Roger von oech

we are taught that right answer are good and incorrect answers are bad

i am not creative

Epictetus

what concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.

thank you& have a nice day

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