Are you suffering from Functional Fixedness about your role and position? Functional fixedness is a cognitive bias that impacts an individual’s ability to be creative. When we discuss functional fixedness we normally associate it with how an object may be used. Duncker’s candle problem is often used to demonstrate this bias. The problem is presented as follows: You […]
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How can leadership promote a culture of risk-taking while maintaining safeguards? Some people think that lowering the threshold for strategic decisions leads to higher risk while maintaining a high level of support from followers? But the opposite is true. Lowering the support needed for a strategic decision leads followers to take less risks – which
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Learning about Flow can help you and your team get into flow! “We pay the most attention to the task at hand when the callange of that task is slightly exceeds our skillset.” That means followers should LET THERE LEADERS KNOW the limits of their comfort zone. That way leaders can challenge their followers and
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Followership takes into consideration peers in addition to leaders. Your followership style and choices impact how you engage with your peers. Imagine for a moment that your leader is doing a full 360 on you. What would your peers say about you?How much do you step up to the plate?How often do you interfere with
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Well, that was unexpected. How many times have you found yourself saying that? Have you ever really thought about surprise? The different types and how they impact strategic thinking and execution? Because you are almost guaranteed to be surprised at some point in one of your creative processes. Now, you might be asking yourself –
What are the stages of a Creative Process? Well, that depends on whom you ask. If you’ve read Simon Sinek’s Start with Why, he argues for a three-stage process. As does Richard Rumelt in his work Good Strategy/Bad Strategy and Fevzi Okumus in his paper delineating the Strategy Implementation Framework. I will hopefully argue, at
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