Strategic Thinking and Creativity

Strategic Thinking and Creativity

I remember being invited to participate in a company’s senior leadership development program over 20 years ago. The program involved extensive assessment like a detailed survey that had to be filled out ahead of time by a prescribed mixture of direct reports, internal customers, external customers, direct boss, and senior executives. The program also involved…

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How Workplace Environment Impacts Creativity

Workplace environment impacts creativity from my experience and from creativity research. Dr. Teresa Amabile set out to create a social psychology of creativity as a PhD candidate at Stanford University in 1972 and continuing in her role as professor at Harvard Business School. She was the first to study the impact of workplace environment on…

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How to Unleash Creativity at Work

Creativity can be unleashed at work through different triggers such as being assigned a project that requires new thinking, investing in learning to catalyze new and useful ideas, and pursuing projects for which you have intrinsic interest. There are other ways to unleash creativity at work that are thought to be in the purview of…

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An Outstanding Worker is a Resilient One

An outstanding worker is a resilient one because resilience is needed to navigate change and the frequency of change in the workplace has been increasing. For example, a person sees more life-changing innovations over the course of a lifetime now because we are living longer and the rate of technological change has been accelerating. Back…

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Escape the Allure of Negativity with the Pursuit of Fulfillment

Many in our modern society need to escape the allure of negativity with the pursuit of fulfillment because social media causes us to lean into our negativity bias while fulfillment seeks the positive. Negativity bias is the tendency to pay more attention to negative information than positive information. Our brains have evolved to pay more…

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How to Elevate Self-Development on a Budget

I thought about how to elevate self-development on a budget because I am currently in the market for a mother-of-the-groom dress for my only son. I want to elevate my style for the wedding but I cannot afford designer prices. Sadly, I no longer fit in the gowns I own so recycle is not an…

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How to Optimize Learning

I am interested in how to optimize learning because now that I have passed my sixth decade of life, I realize how much there is to learn given the rapid pace of intellectual advancement. The more I learn, the more I can help others through my work. My ability to help others as a leadership…

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