Recognizing creative leadership: Can creative idea expression negatively relate to perceptions of leadership potential?

Recognizing creative leadership: Can creative idea expression negatively relate to perceptions of leadership potential?

Drawing on and extending prototype theories of creativity and leadership, we theorize that the expression of creative ideas may diminish judgments of leadership potential unless the charismatic leadership prototype is activated in the minds of social perceivers. Study 1shows creative idea expression is negatively related to perceptions of leadership potential in a sample of employees working in...

A propulsion model of creative leadership

This article presents a propulsion model of creative leadership. First, it introduces some general issues in the nature of creative leadership. Then, it presents the propulsion model. Creative leadership can be of three general kinds—leadership that accepts existing ways of doing things, leadership that challenges existing ways of doing things, and leadership that synthesizes different existing...

An Agent-based Simulation of the Effectiveness of Creative Leadership

This paper investigates the effectiveness of creative versus uncreative leadership using EVOC, an agent-based model of cultural evolution. Each iteration, each agent in the artificial society invents a new action, or imitates a neighbor’s action. Only the leader’s actions can be imitated by all other agents, referred to as followers. Two measures of creativity were used: (1) invention-to-imitat...

Creative leadership for tomorrow’s schools: In search of new metaphors

3 Creative Idea Generation

Organisations acknowledge the fact that competitive advantage depends heavily on their ability to capitalise on their employees’ ideas as well as to support and maintain creativity within their working environments. Thus, the importance of creativity has long been recognised in management. This chapter reviews the current literature on creativity and discusses various views, which provide a the...