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In today’s competitive world there is an urgent need everywhere in two important qualities: creativity and leadership. Organizations that engage in more creative ways to solve their problems, maintain its leadership in business. Even small companies with vision and leadership for the right time to choose a new course, can quickly become global giants. Microsoft and Apple have also been used to small firms, and now their names will not go with us to the language – they have to / conjunction creativity and leadership. However, this combination occurs very rarely. Is it always as it should be? Some people say that “leaders are born, not made,” is also believed that creativity as birthright, are endowed with only a few lucky ones. But creativity is present in every person, and emerge as the leader at the right time can those of whom are waiting for the least. Who would have dared to predict that Lech Walensee become a world famous Polish director? But his willingness to respond to challenges unleashed his exceptional leadership qualities. Just as each of us is a creator of something, just one – the leader in something.Creativity and leadership of. Bali

(Editor’s note: Peter Vritsa several years living in Bali, is married to an indigenous inhabitant of the island, and in his work draws from a lot of the local culture, rituals, customs, etc. In Bali and Anne moved Entus. Apparently there is something in this part of the world, what really attracted creative people …)
In Balinese culture, creativity is valued very highly. Creation of objects of beauty – it is part of the daily life of the islanders, whether they work in the field or at home. So, builders are often musicians or carvers. Many children and adults great dancing, singing classical forms, and, in addition, witty improvising. Ordinary people are constantly creating delicious offerings for numerous ceremonies. Often these ceremonies are organized on a large scale, involving families or entire communities, with very little fuss, the action is so well-coordinated and effective, all will run on time. Leadership is exercised freely by committee consisting of people with organizational talent and skills necessary for the overall management of activities. But this coordination group is usually formed naturally from those who at that time was able and willing to take responsibility. Centralized planning and administration to a minimum, and all the people involved in them form a flexible and creative self-organizing system in which people with similar ideas and talents, spontaneously joined the subgroups, to do what must be done: a group of women preparing offerings and cakes, men do more laborious preparation, someone greets and welcomes guests, etc. Beginners get to this category, where the older and more experienced people sharing their knowledge and skills of those who are less knowledgeable. Balinese way of such events is different in that leadership, for the most part dispersed. What is happening shows the importance of recognizing that leadership is not only a function of the nominal leader, but ideally permeates the entire system. First of all, people are responsible for the management of themselves, that is, they naturally perform their own roles and responsibilities – some extra guidance or coordination they do not need. Second, each sub-group and the team perform their duties and functions properly.

The transfer functions of leadership and creativity

Many large companies in recent years trying to introduce this kind of dispersed leadership, with the aim of building a more flat organizations with cross-functional teams to take responsibility for the prompt and effective management of specific projects. The transfer of leadership is to give people the power, and thus release their natural creativity, so often suppressed the traditional hierarchical structures. This shows that creativity and leadership are closely related to each other. Organization and management style in the system will have a significant effect on the degree of creativity exhibited by this system. Creativity to flourish, it needs freedom. When, in the last years of the Soviet Union, the daughter of Carl Rogers, the founder of person-centered therapy, self-expression, Natalie Rogers brought this system in Russia, she was well aware that in the then prime climates encourage the free expression of the spontaneous “creative compound” the consistent application of these kinds of art expression as a movement, drawing, writing essays, etc. – was a revolutionary step. Rigid authoritarianism and creativity usually mutually exclusive. Naturally, excessive freedom also hostile to freedom. The word “anarchy” is from the Greek root meaning “the absence of government,” now come to mean the destruction of the order and its transformation into chaos. Most creativity flourishes where there is a delicate balance between freedom and control. For leaders who want to nourish the creativity, the main question is how to find and maintain an optimal balance, and this by the leaders need to show remarkable creativity.

Three levels of creative development

One can distinguish three levels of artistic development from the leaders. At the simplest level, we find that the leader can use creative methods to solve specific problems. These methods can be so designated – “creative.” For example: a leader to preside during the “brainstorming” to generate new ideas for the current event. Or he may resort to more informal approach to problem solving, which he learned from childhood through trial and error or, when solved their problems while studying or at work. At the next level, style or method of leadership affects people with their creativity or expression flair . This leader can not only apply and be creative in specific contexts (circumstances), but is perceived as a person with a fresh and creative approach to the situation at all. The way in which this leader responds to events as they occur, is called creative. In this case, the reaction becomes creative transkontekstualnoy. Finally, the leader is seen as a creative person. Creativity is evident not only in where and how it works, not only in how it works, but in the very nature of this leader. This has the aura of creative British business leader and founder of the brand “Virgin” Branson. His participation in the inter-continental flights in balloons seen according to his personality in general, and that creative quality is something which it tries to imbue their companies – even in traditional industries, not famous for their creative innovations, such as the railways. If we accept that leaders-creators are made, not born, we can see the path of development, in which the leader of the future is important to learn a set of creative problem-solving techniques that take into account the systemic and luck, discipline and freedom. Narabatyvaya many additional forms of creative activity, the leader can find the ability to respond creatively in a variety of different contexts, both at home and at work. Thus, the work becomes part of being a leader. Churchill’s ability to offer inspirational leadership of Britain during the war is inseparable from his mastery of the writer or artist akvarelschika hobby.

Development of creative leadership

Fortunately, develop creative leadership is much easier than one might expect, because creativity and leadership are based on a common structure. In particular, they depend on the ability to balance the more homogeneous quality. example, and creativity, and leadership ability needed proactivity, making and saving directions, supplemented by sensitivity and subtle perception of the context and allow the person to pick up trends, opportunities to notice and link. In the same spirit, creativity and leadership need the ability to focus on a certain point, sometimes – to the point of obsession, or tunnel vision, while maintaining the perceptual field is quite open. And creativity and leadership require the ability to stay close to domestic sources of inspiration and at the same time ready to transform inner illumination effect . Thanks to a similar basic structure it is possible to stimulate the synergies of creativity and leadership. Developing creativity, we can unlock the potential of leadership, and when we work with the basic qualities of leadership, we can get a more creative approach to problem solving. Moreover, we can accelerate the development of creative leadership, focusing on five common elements. First, we can develop the ability to be highly motivated . And the creativity and leadership require this ability to choose and maintain direction. We can do at different levels as it gets, and focused, purposeful man and those who can concentrate on the important aspects. This is a key element to promote creative solutions to problems, which also is essential for a leader. Secondly, we can develop our capacity for reflection . We can take the time to think about affairs, to rest and to connect to sources of inspiration within. Creativity often arises from the fact that we give for the will to go on as usual and rest a while. The leaders will also need time to Camp David (country residence Presidents of the USA), or giving something to think about some things and let manifest something new. Periods of meditation and relaxation are vital for creativity and leadership. Thirdly, we can develop our ability to invest in the business heart and soul (the ability to “surrender” the case – Ed.). We can develop our ability to fully dedicate themselves to the cause. It becomes easier to the extent that, as we reveal their ability to express themselves, to go beyond the boundaries and the ability to think freely and independently. And the leader and the creator need to free your mind to think about the unthinkable, and then the courage to implement something that will not necessarily be seen in an obvious and everyday wisdom. For example, in the early 80’s, Margaret Thatcher had done the unthinkable and rejected the principle of all the previous Labour government and the Conservatives, that the only way forward was a messy compromise. Tony Blair also reformed the Labour Party in order to be successful in the election, sacrificing part of a sacred ideology and taking a course to the center, at a time when many of it could not have thought of. Fourth, we can supplement our ability to focus the ability to be “open all over the field,” to be receptive to all the trends around us. We can learn to identify the underlying patterns (samples) and the connection of the world, as well as noticing opportunities, resources, and relationships that will support us. Thus, we set the creative relationships, and our leadership, more and more will flow into the stream of time, as it directs the flow. Our leadership is peculiar ministry in the same measure in which he held a board. Naturally, the development of the four poles of experience, we have to find and point to the axis, a fulcrum between the different parts of opposites. To do this, we have to accept the alignment and awareness . To some extent the development of our ability to feel free of the opposites, that is, the ability to reconcile a deep bond with the inner experience of freedom and relaxed with an external expression, naturally lead us to a point of equilibrium. Higher levels of activity will require greater alignment (alignment). On the other hand, finding everything in life is a great alignment and awareness, we naturally find that we can comfortably drift between the opposite qualities. Greater alignment facilitates the work at higher levels. Developing the ability to recognize and centered, so not only is the fifth element of creative leadership – but the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end of our development, both in terms of creativity, and in terms of leadership. As leadership and creativity and have some degree of disappearance and the mysterious, working with their common deep structure, we can stimulate both, using some common elements. Developing the ability to focus on results, freely and creatively express themselves, communicate with internal sources of inspiration through meditation practice, providing our senses and sensitivity to all the attention spent on field experience, and, above all, rooting itself in the heart of these various parts, we can become creative leaders who lead creative and create, at the forefront of the business. But most importantly, we will get great pleasure from the fact that while our potential blooms faster!