The document discusses creative leadership and innovation. It notes that business leaders like Kerry Packer, Richard Branson, and Frank Lowy successfully implemented innovative business models. However, many organizations lack collaboration and systemic implementation of innovation. While creativity and innovation are important, only a minority of organizations provide training in these skills. The document examines perceptions of and approaches to creativity, innovation, and creative leadership.

1. _______________________________________________________________________________ The Creative Leadership Forum 100 Mowbray Road, Willoughby. NSW Australia 2068 www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com Why Creative Leadership?

2. … business model change… is vital to innovation… Kerry Packer’s One Day Cricket Model Richard Branson’s Virgin Brand Frank Lowy’s Westfield Sopping Complexes

3. _______________________________________________________________________________ The Creative Leadership Forum 100 Mowbray Road, Willoughby. NSW Australia 2068 … Innovation is impeded by the lack of collaboration…

4. … Implementation of innovation needs to be systemic…

6. Is The Australian workforce creative and innovative? A Major Nation Wide Research Project AUSTRALASIAN FACILITATORS NETWORK CEN Creativity Exchange Network

7. Survey Topics Profile of Creative Leader The Perception of Creativity and Innovation personally and organizationally Content, Types and Frequencies of creative leadership programmes creativity and innovation skills development programmes

8. Attributes of Creative Leadership Empowerment Enlightenment Enjoyment Risk Courage

9. What is Creative Leadership? … .leads people to confidently innovate while managing change… … harnesses the strengths of individuals in a team to better work for the team as a whole… … helps people see issues, problems and processes creatively… … leads themself and others through problem to solution in a useful and novel way… … provides and contributes to an environment that allows people to try ideas… … seeks out insights to inspire others…

10. What is Creative Leadership? … .leads others into a new innovative and unknown future…

11. 47 out of 301 chose the same person

12. How You Perceive Creativity and Innovation 62% … no difference between work creativity and personal creativity 75% …disagree creativity comes from artists or those trained in the fine arts. Evenly divided almost 50% creativity is mainly creative problem solving

13. How You Perceive Creativity and Innovation 82% recognize when they are being creative _____________________________________________

14. How You Perceive Creativity and Innovation Aesthetic Appreciation and Contemplation (Philosophy, Spiritualism, etc) 49.3% Literary Arts (Writing) 44.3%

16. Creativity and Innovation in Organisations What’s the difference between creativity and innovation 82% don’t know

17. Creativity and Innovation in Organisations … .organisations in Australia have a large asset of creative skills and capabilities… … they have yet to access and unleash…

18. “ The Business Model” NUMBERS = NO VALUE

19. “ The Business Model” RELATIONSHIPS = OUTCOME + VALUE

20. “ The Business Model” A successful creative leader … nurtures relationships to satisfy customer needs… … to produce immediate value and long term viability...

21. The Hardness as opposed to the Softness of Aesthetic Skills What ?

22. Technology democratised media

23. No longer does the media control us We create the media

24. WE ARE THE MEDIA!

25. The Death of Power Point is Nonsense PowerPoint is only the beginning … Death by PowerPoint is Nonsense…

31. How We Work!! The U Theory and The Black Hole of Uncertainty

32. Visual Explorer Picturing Approaches to Complex Challenges

34. “… If a person can become more productive in making commodities through better education…it is not unnatural …to expect her through these means to directly achieve more - and have freedom to achieve more ... “ Development as Freedom Amartya Sen Nobel Prize Winner for Economic Science 1999

35. _______________________________________________________________________________ The Creative Leadership Forum 100 Mowbray Road, Willoughby. NSW Australia 2068 www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com