Creative
Leadership
Creativity in Decision Making
Dr. Amin Senin
Bahagian Pengurusan Sekolah Harian
Kementerian Pelajaran Malaysia

Leadership?

R ESEARCH
Successful School Leadership
What It Is and How It Influences Pupil Learning
Kenneth Leithwood, Christopher Day,
Pam Sammons, Alma Harris and David Hopkins
Our generic definition of leadership – not
just effective leadership – is very simple,
then; it is about direction and influence.
Stability is the goal of what is often called
“management.” Improvement is the goal
of leadership.
Research Report RR800

“Unsuccessful leaders often
display stereotypical fallacies in
their thinking.”
Sternberg (2002)

Unrealistic optimism fallacy
Egocentrism fallacy
Omniscience fallacy
Omnipotence fallacy
Invulnerability fallacy

“The first, unrealistic optimism
fallacy, occurs when leaders
think they are so smart and
effective that they can do
whatever they please.”

“The second, egocentrism
fallacy describes successful
leaders who think that only
they matter, not the people
who rely on them.”

“The third, omniscience
fallacy, occurs when leaders
think they know everything,
and lose sight of their own
limitations.”

“The fourth, omnipotence
fallacy, portrays leaders who
think they are all-powerful and
can do whatever they want.”

“The fifth, invulnerability
fallacy, happens when leaders
think they can get away with
anything, consider themselves
too clever to be caught, and
even if caught, figure they can
get away with it because of
who they imagine themselves
to be.”

Ingredients of successful
educational leadership
Sternberg (2004)

Intelligence
Creativity
Wisdom

Intelligence
“Academic intelligence refers to the
coalescence of memory and analytical
abilities to constitute the conventional
notion of intelligence-the abilities needed to
recall and recognize, and analyze, evaluate,
and judge information.”

Intelligence
“Practical intelligence is the ability to solve
everyday problems by utilizing knowledge
gained from experience to purposefully
change oneself to suit the environment
(adaptation), change the environment to
suit oneself (shaping), or find a new
environment in which to work (selection).”

Creativity
“Creativity refers to skill in generating ideas
and products that are relatively novel, high
in quality, and appropriate to the task at
hand. Because creativity generates ideas
that others will follow, it is an important
component for leadership.”

Wisdom
“An individual is wise to the extent he or she
uses successful intelligence and experience,
moderated by values, to (a) seek to reach a
common good; (b) balance intrapersonal
(one's own), interpersonal (others'), and
extrapersonal (organizational/institutional/
spiritual) interests over the short and long
term; and (c) adapt to, shape, and select
environments.”

Leadership
a catalyst for Creativity
change a process that
lead to change

Flash of Genius

“I have never been fond of
distinguishing between
leadership and management;
they overlap and you need both
qualities. But here is one
difference that it makes sense
to highlight; leadership is
needed for problems that do
not have easy answer. The big
problems of the day are
Michael Fullan complex, rife with paradoxes
and dilemmas. For these
problems there are no once-
and-for-all answers.”

Creativity
in
Decision Making

Tunnel Vision

. . .see a big picture
redefine the problem

Creativity in Decision Making with Value-Focused Thinking
Keeney, Ralph L
Sloan Management Review; Summer 1994; 35, 4; ABI/INFORM Global
pg. 33
“Decision makers usually think
of decision situations as
problem to solve, not as
opportunities to take
advantage of.”

Theories of Action
Espoused Theory Theory in use
Double Loop Learning

Instrumen Kompetensi Pemimpin Sekolah
Institut Aminuddin Baki
Kementerian Pelajaran Malaysia
KOMPAS©

"In some
organizations
that we studied
there seemed to
be an unspoken,
but powerful
belief that once
a decision had
been made to do
something, no
additional work
was needed to
make sure it was
implemented."

Terima
Kasih

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Dr. Amin Senin
Bahagian Pengurusan Sekolah Harian
Kementerian Pelajaran Malaysia
Tel : 03-88849310
Email : amin.senin@moe.gov.my
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