Managing Creativity MBA dissertation

Creativity and Innovation are often taught using airy-fairy, intangible, ungrounded, unscientific, non-useable, undefined, mysterious terminology and theories. To get a handle on it you need to talk in real, tangible, useable, measurable concepts:

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TIP OF THE DAY: Status Games

One of the dynamics leaders should be looking out for is the propensity of certain personality types to be more interested in maintaining a high status within the group as opposed to working to arrive at good decisions.

Status interest and deference is a major cause of conflict, competition and blocking in group activities and leads to a restriction of information flow and a consequent reduction in the number and quality of ideas.

Status dynamics cause:

a) People to be more interested in maintaining high status at the expense of good results.

b) People to defer to higher status individuals at the expense of their own ideas.

c) People to value the ideas of higher status people more than their own.

d) High status individuals to consciously block the ideas of lower status individuals.

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