Discovery-Driven Leadership
Creativity
Creative process
Concepts
100

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

100

Can creativity be taught?

Yes!, it is a skill. Anyone can learn it and become better at it. 

100

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

100

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.


200

Name the 5 dimensions of Discovery-Driven Leadership

1. Associating

2. Questioning

3. Networking

4. Observing

5. Experementing

200

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' 

200

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. 

200

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


300
Compare these 3 dimensions for a corporate entrepreneur and a start-up entrepreneur. Is it higher, lower or the same?


* Experimenting 

* Questioning

* Observing

* Experimenting: higher for start-up entrepreneur

* Questioning: higher for start-up entrepreneur

* Observing: mostly the same for both

300

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.

300

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

300

Trade dress

The unique combination of elements that a company uses to create a product’s image and to promote it


E.g. a t-shirt with Guccci on it. --> This resembles the original style/ image too much


400

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

400

What is a force-field analysis?

Allows entrepreneurs to both weigh the advantages and disadvantages of a particular problem from many sides

400

Myopic thinking

A type of thinking that destroys creativity because it is narrowly focused and limited by the status quo