• We all can exercise some creativity, some have a greater innate potential
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Creativity as a Trait
• Personal characteristics more important than environment in which people work
– Creative people are creative wherever they are
• Positively related traits
– Capable, clever, confident, humorous, original, reflective, resourceful, and self-confident
• Negatively related traits
– Affected, commonplace, conventional, submissive, and suspicious
Based on conceptual skills and abilities such as divergent and abstract thinking
Creativity = Behavior Creativity = A Process Creativity = Integrated
Whatever results in the formation of new ideas or solutions that are useful
□ List and define the 5 perspectives of creativity
□ List and describe the creative process □ Recognize the different roles in the creative
process □ Recognize the impediments to creativity □ Understand ways to foster, enhance and
Process of generating and testing ideas
Function of interaction among person, environment and task
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□ Creativity suggests innovation and originality
□ Devise new ways to:
□ Think □ Analyze □ Do
□ Critical to success
□ helps people and organizations respond to new challenges and new opportunities
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Creativity and Government
□ Creativity
□ Intuitive □ Fluid □ Think and Act outside of normal
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Chapter Objectives
□ Understand and appreciate the importance of creativity in public organizations
procedures
□ Is this antithetical to government work?
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Perspective on Creativity
Creativity as Conceptual Skills and Abilities
□ Ability to think on more than one plane or more than one level at a time
□ Koestler (1964)
□ The more adept a person is at rising from lower applied areas to higher intellectual and imaginative planes, the more creative such a fortunate individual is likely to become
improve creativity
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Creativity
□ Single most important attribute of future leaders
Perspective
Main Points
Creativity = Trait
Creativity = Cognitive Skills and Abilities
People have innate characteristics that predispose them to be creative