- How do creativity and leadership go together?
- What is the approach you have to creativity?
- 98% say creativity is important to their jobs. 45% say they are creative.
- In Sweden, 60-80% believe they are creative. N. America has highest (95%). In Singapore 20% and Japan 20%. China is 90%. (Why big countries have big egos.) S. Korea has lowest (at one conference of 300, 0 people raised their hands.
- 2% believe that their company is doing enough to develop their creativity.
- What is an idea? An idea is taking two formerly known things and combine them into a new thing. Only God can create out of nothing.
- Sink and urinal combined. Is this a good idea? It saves space. It saves water. It increases chance that people
- Idea = p(k+i). p= person; k = knowledge; i = information. The plus is important.
- Book + notebook = idea book
- Lesson 1 – just because a room of people doesn’t recognize creative genius being presented doesn’t mean the idea isn’t good.
- The average business book only sells 3000. In Singapore I’ve sold 15K. In Sweden, I’ve sold 150K. In Iceland, I’ve sold 3K. How many people live in Iceland?
- Why is it important now? Speed of innovation is faster than ever.
- Idea perception
- We want from books to electronic devices. Pictures of people in airports not reading books.
- The problem is that we are not ready for this change. We’re not very good at change.
- Just because a man sounds confident doesn’t make him right. It just means confident.
- Swimming pool story – diagonal swimming vs swimming down the lanes
- People that you are leading are so stuck in doing things the way that they are doing it because that is what they’ve always done.
- Imagine the potential if we thought our job was to make people more creative.
- How do you teach creativity? You do creative things yourself as a leader.
- What’s the most creative thing I’ve done as a leader? What’s the most creative thing I could do as a leader?
- We’re never closer to God than when we are creative.
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