Nine Greatest Ideas for Your Role as Creative Leader

Idea 65: Your basic role as team leader

Grace does not destroy nature but perfects it.

Thomas Aquinas, Italian philosopher, theologian and Dominican friar

Creative leadership is not a different form of leadership to, say, effective leadership. There is a natural or generic role of leader, and you need to master that. Being or becoming a creative leader is a grace that completes or perfects your leadership contribution. Good natural leaders are taking the first steps in that direction when they share decisions with their team members.

A key issue in leadership is always how far the team leader (appointed or elected) should share decisions with others, team members or colleagues, and, beyond ...

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