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About this Book
Business leaders recognize a creativity gap in their organizations, with only 11% prioritizing creative thinking despite 82% linking it to positive outcomes. Chris Griffiths addresses this lack of creativity, offering tools for idea generation and implementation. Integrating creative thinking can propel businesses to thrive. Managers play a key role in encouraging innovation, but many struggle to foster creative environments. Success for leaders depends on their ability to create and innovate. Companies like Starbucks and Apple exemplify continuous innovation, with Griffiths providing insights to empower organizations to embrace creative thinking for success.
2019
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Conclusion
7 Key Points
Conclusion
Encouraging creativity in the workplace is crucial for business success. Managers play a key role in promoting innovation, but many companies struggle to create a culture that supports creative thinking. To thrive, businesses must prioritize creativity and cultivate an environment that values new ideas.
Abstract
Business leaders recognize a creativity gap in their organizations, with only 11% prioritizing creative thinking despite 82% linking it to positive outcomes. Chris Griffiths addresses this lack of creativity, offering tools for idea generation and implementation. Integrating creative thinking can propel businesses to thrive. Managers play a key role in encouraging innovation, but many struggle to foster creative environments. Success for leaders depends on their ability to create and innovate. Companies like Starbucks and Apple exemplify continuous innovation, with Griffiths providing insights to empower organizations to embrace creative thinking for success.
Key Points
- Creative thinking can elevate a business from surviving to flourishing, with managers playing a vital role in encouraging and implementing innovations.
- Future business leaders' success hinges on their ability to create, not just on past achievements, as seen in innovative companies like Starbucks and Microsoft.
- Thinking errors hinder creativity, including selective thinking, reactive thinking, and assumptive thinking.
- The solution-finder process promotes creativity through systematic approaches, integrating divergent and convergent thinking.
- Optimizing brainstorming sessions involves allowing independent idea generation, accepting unconventional ideas, and using creative techniques.
- Analyzing ideas for actionable insights involves sorting, screening, and selecting ideas based on feasibility, return, and demand.
- Continuous improvement is key, as successful businesses iterate on products and refine solutions, with leaders promoting creativity through innovative strategies.
Summary
Incorporate creative thinking into workplace cultures for businesses.
Applying creativity in business can shift a company from “getting by” to thriving or “moving forward”. Managers play a crucial role in encouraging new ideas and implementing innovations intentionally. However, many businesses fail to create an environment that fosters creative thinking.
The future success of business leaders will depend not on their past successes or current knowledge but on their ability to create. Companies like Starbucks, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft, known for their innovation, continually position themselves to solve problems creatively. Simply relying on occasional brainstorming sessions is not enough; it's crucial to instill a company-wide culture that values and encourages creativity.
Teams should eliminate thinking errors hindering creativity.
Mistakes in thinking often lead to bad decisions more than mistakes in information. When employees fail to question their biases and assumptions while considering information, it hampers their ability to stay open-minded and find clear solutions to problems. These thinking errors
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