1. Creative Leadership
Jace Hargis, PhD

2. Questions on Creative Leadership
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What is it?
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Creative Communication?
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Are we Creative?
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Is it important?
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Where does it come from?
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How/When do we CL?

3. CL: Start With Why…
Instead of simply fixing things…
Connecting multiple challenges and
“creating” a new solution that is better than
either solution independently.
Has This Ever Happened to You?
Can We Make It Happen More Often?

4. First, What is Creativity?
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“Create”
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Runs ahead of your ability to perform
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Demands reality, action, direction
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Frustrating
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Problem solving
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Risks

5. In two minutes…
Sketch your Philosophy on
Leadership

6. Highly Creative People…
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Try New Things & Risk Failure
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Find Order in Confusion
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Are Motivated by a Task
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Need to Find Solutions
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Challenge Assumptions
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Make Connections
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Push the Envelope

7. Creative Communication

8. What “Dent” Have You Made in
the World?
More Importantly,
What Dent Do You
Plan on Making?

10. DO
YOU

11. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NugRZGDbPFU
1. Adjacent possible
2. Liquid networks
3. Slow hunch
4. Serendipity
5. Error
6. Exaptation
7. Platforms

12. How Do We Create a Creative Environment
Create a example/non-example artifact
(post on Google Doc)

13. Thank You!
Before you go, could you share
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One idea that you might
use from today.
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One word that describes how you
FEEL now.
Jace Hargis, PhD