Exploring Your Creative Genius: Episode 120
In our most recent show, Mike Bittle talked about how individuals can leverage their creativity for their benefit and that of the organization. He also spoke about creativity and leadership which always brings my attention to servant leadership.
Servant leadership, putting others’ growth first, unlocks individuals’ and organizations’ creativity because it cultivates a sense of psychological safety, crucial to innovation. Research reported in the Harvard Business Review found that teams led by servant leaders produce a 45% higher creative output.
Over the course of this show I have frequently shared with you Creative Behaviors. Here’s how three of them support servant leadership.
Being Generous: Give credit for successes, and the resources and trust to fuel those successes.
Humility: Wow, what an impact it can make in an organization when a leader says “I don’t know. What do you think?” And then listens.
Being Playful: Companies from 3M to Google offer employees free time to work on projects that, in the case of 3M, resulted in someone turning a failed adhesive they’d developed into Post-It Notes. Being Playful plugs into our intrinsic motivations.
I learned servant leadership without knowing that I was when I was a 15 year old fishing guide with very successful 50 year old men in my boat; I realized the better I served them the more authority they granted me.
To get more of Mike’s wisdoms check out his website and his books: ‘The Bittle Code-Unplugged” and “The Founders Checklist.” Both are available on LuLu.com online bookstore; The Founders Checklist also sold on Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
And we briefly mentioned his music making and you’ll find ‘Welcome to the Acoustic Lounge’ on Spotify.
“Exploring Your Creative Genius” takes an expansive view on what it means to be creative and entrepreneurial in an ongoing conversation led by Carl Nordgren — entrepreneur, novelist, and lifelong student with decades of experience growing his own creative capacity and assisting others to do the same in exciting new ways!
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