BA509 Theories of Leadership Week 8 DQ
1. Speak to the most creative person you know in any field, and find out if he or she uses any specific creativity-enhancing technique. Please provide the name of the person, the organization and the position that person holds.
Miss Debbie
Fashion Designer for Ladies’ Wear
Seattle Pacific Industries
According to Miss Debbie, a manager showing the quality of dynamism and creativity with new and innovative ideas, analyzing calculated risks, undertaking and implementing them to maximize the returns on investments & profits, as well as enabling the organization in gaining majority in the market share are said to be professional. Professional managers follow the management principles and practices based on information and experience. Managers are said to be professional when they apply the theories of management to solve the emerging problems in the organization. That is why she employs creativity-enhancing techniques, not only upon herself, but upon others as well, especially in her line of job. Being a fashion designer entails being creative, not only in the clothes you make but also on the type of management that you impose upon the workers.
According to her, management is an art in the sense that within these confines and structures there are great scopes for the use of creativity, imagination, initiative and invention within the overall sphere of the occupation. The scientific methods and body of knowledge referred to must be applied in their own way to each and any given situation, issue or problem. This is the creative aspect of the manager’s role and function; and anyone in a managerial position who seeks for prescriptive solutions to organizational problems is likely to fail. Furthermore, in management, creativeness is required. Skills and the techniques describe the art of management. There are some skills and techniques in which is known to possess art in management.
2 In what way does your present program of study contribute to your ability to solve problems creatively?
A very important factor in problem definition is creativity. Creative people are effective problem solvers. They are generally thought of as people who can think of unusual solutions that others cannot. “Seeing a problem in an unusual way”, “seeing a relationship in a situation that other people fail to see”, “ability to define a problem well”, or “the ability to ask the right questions” are considered as necessary traits for creativity (1981;1959). As (1975) put it, “it is the creative question to which a creative solution is the response.” (1959) suggests that redefinition is logically opposite to functional fixedness. Indeed, creativity can be thought of as the negation of all fixations, biases, narrow thinking. Another aspect of this is that creativity is the ability to “challenge assumptions” ( 1970). Each assumption imposes a limit on the problem space. Hence it is critical to establish their validity in order not to rule out alternative avenues if doing so is not justified.
3 Describe a situation where you employed lateral thinking to solve a challenging issue.
I was once presented with a challenging issue wherein I had to manage a certain group of people who are, more or less, different. I had to organize them in a way that they would get along so that they would be able to present a song and dance number to the local geriatric association. They really could not get along because they were multiracial children of around 4 or 3. Then I thought of an idea wherein they could get along and present a song and dance number. I divided them into subgroups, 5 groups, with two persons per group. I made sure I assigned the kids to the one person they really did not get along well with. I told them to practice the song and dance together for a week and after each practice, I would spend time with each group for a “knowing you, knowing me” session. To everybody’s surprise, they got along just fine because they found out they had lots of things in common. After that, they were able to present and everybody was pleased.
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