논문

 Creativity and The role of the Leader는 

조직원의 창의성을 육성하기 위해 리더가 할 일이 무엇인지에 대해 정의하고 

이를 활성화하기 위해 필요한 요소들이 무엇인지에 대해 논하고 있는 논문입니다.

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In today’s innovation-driven economy,

understanding how to generate great ideas is an urgent managerial priority. And that

calls for major doses of creativity.

But many leaders assume creativity is too elusive and intangible to be managed.

It’s true that you can’t manage creativity.

But you can manage for creativity, say innovation leaders and experts who participated

in a 2008 Harvard Business School colloquium. Among their recommendations for fostering the conditions in which

creativity flourishes:

• Stop thinking of yourself as the wellspring

of ideas that employees execute.

Instead, elicit and champion others’ideas.

• Open your organization to diverse

perspectives—by getting people of

different disciplines, backgrounds, and

areas of expertise to share their thinking.

• Know when to impose controls on the

creative process (such as during the

commercialization phase) and when not

to (during early-idea generation