Discovery-Driven Leadership
True or False? Discovery-Driven Leadership includes the traditional management roles of analyzing, controlling, planning and directing and often leads to only incremental innovations.
False, this is Delivery-Driven Leadership
Can creativity be taught?
Yes!, it is a skill. Anyone can learn it and become better at it.
Name 3 out of the 7 steps from the creative process
1. Preperation
2. Investigation
3. Transformation
4. Incubation
5. Illumination
6. Verification
7. Implementation
Patent
A grant from the federal government’s Patent and Trademark Office to the inventor of a product, giving the exclusive right to make, use, license, or sell the invention in this country for 20 years from the date of the patent application.
Name the 5 dimensions of Discovery-Driven Leadership
1. Associating
2. Questioning
3. Networking
4. Observing
5. Experementing
Name 4 out of the 10 barriers to creativity/ mental blocks.
1. Searching for the one 'right' answer
2. Focussing on 'being local'
3. Blindly following the rules
4. Constantly being practical
5. Viewing laughter and play as frivolous
6. Becoming overly specialized
7. Avoiding ambiguity
8. Fearing looking foolish
9. Fearing mistakes and failure
10. Believing 'I'm not creative'
During which step does the individual typically experience a sudden "aha!" moment or breakthrough idea
Illumination, causes the lightbulb to go on. Occurs spontaneously and could take place after 5 minutes of 5 years.
Rapid prototyping
The process of creating a model of an idea, which enables an entrepreneur to discover flaws in the idea and to quickly make improvements in the design
* Experimenting
* Questioning
* Observing
* Experimenting: higher for start-up entrepreneur
* Questioning: higher for start-up entrepreneur
* Observing: mostly the same for both
What is the role of curiosity in the creative process?
Encourages the drive for innovation and bold, transformative thinking. This can create a competitive advantage.
Explain how the Incubation and Verification stages differ in terms of conscious and unconscious mental activity
Incubation involves stepping away from the problem and letting the subconscious mind work on it, while Verification is a more conscious and analytical step where the idea is critically evaluated for feasibility and effectiveness
Trade dress
The unique combination of elements that a company uses to create a product’s image and to promote it
In what ways can entrepreneurs enhance the creativity of their employees and their own?
Tolerating failure
Encouraging curiosity
Viewing problems as challenges
Providing creativity training
Rewarding creativity
Modeling creativity
What is a force-field analysis?
Allows entrepreneurs to both weigh the advantages and disadvantages of a particular problem from many sides
Myopic thinking
A type of thinking that destroys creativity because it is narrowly focused and limited by the status quo