Creative leadership

Recognizing creative leadership: Can creative idea expression negatively relate to perceptions of leadership potential?

Drawing on and extending prototype theories of creativity and leadership, we theorize that the expression of creative ideas may diminish judgments of leadership potential unless the charismatic leadership prototype is activated in the minds of social perceivers. Study 1shows creative idea expression is negatively related to perceptions of leadership potential in a sample of employees working in...

A propulsion model of creative leadership

This article presents a propulsion model of creative leadership. First, it introduces some general issues in the nature of creative leadership. Then, it presents the propulsion model. Creative leadership can be of three general kinds—leadership that accepts existing ways of doing things, leadership that challenges existing ways of doing things, and leadership that synthesizes different existing...

Creative leadership for tomorrow’s schools: In search of new metaphors

Youth Roles and Leadership in an Online Creative Community

Teens within local community organizations often serve in leadership roles, such as camp counselors or program assistants. As they carry out their responsibilities, they gain work skills and the community benefits from their contributions. With young people spending more time online, how might they build similar skills while contributing to the online communities they engage in? In this paper w...

An Agent-based Simulation of the Effectiveness of Creative Leadership

This paper investigates the effectiveness of creative versus uncreative leadership using EVOC, an agent-based model of cultural evolution. Each iteration, each agent in the artificial society invents a new action, or imitates a neighbor’s action. Only the leader’s actions can be imitated by all other agents, referred to as followers. Two measures of creativity were used: (1) invention-to-imitat...