Truth 59. Creating Creative Employees
Today’s workplace often puts a premium on creativity and innovation. For evidence, a cross-section of senior executives from various countries and industries was asked: “On a scale of one to ten, how important is innovation to the success of your firm?” These executives all rated the importance of innovation very high: usually a nine or ten. They considered it the number one source for their firm’s growth.
Innovation is defined as a new idea applied to initiating or improving a product, process, or service. And all innovations depend on creativity. In this section, we define creativity, who has it, and what managers can do to encourage it.
Creativity is the ability to produce novel and useful ideas. And most ...
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