Creativity The Most Important Leadership Quality ()

Creativity The Most Important Leadership Quality () Back in 2010 Fast Company had an article titled The Most Important Leadership Quality for CEOs? Creativity   Of course, I heard this during my workout yesterday, while listening to a Ted talk :p The soundbite that stuck out was that about 60% of CEOs cited creativity as the most important leadership quality. This stood out to me for two reasons. First, I recently finished creating a Pluralsight course on how leaders can boost innovation in their teams. Really, this is a big fat course on how to be and think more creatively. Whether you are a leader of many or a leader of one (yourself), creativity is important. Even back in 2010 it was important. By the way, the article has a bunch of interesting nuggets what they thought about integrity, what they thought about global business, etc. Check it out. The second why the article stuck out was because for years my two favorite c words are creativity and curiosity. I wrote a blog post about this, but I cant find it right now. However, heres some quotes from me on Forbes where I talk about creativity and curiosity, again from 2010: The Seven Most Universal Job Skills. I never, ever thought I was creative. I couldnt draw well, I wasnt very good at artsy stuff One day I was talking to some career coaches and I said this to them and they got pretty excited. You arent creative? Jason, you created JibberJobber! You wrote two books! How can you think you arent creative? It was then that I learned that creativity doesnt mean being an artist. I learned that we can all create, and that we can all think creatively. Furthermore, Ive thought a lot over the years about how much we create vs. how much we consume. I am concerned that we live in a society that is hyper-focused on consumption, which takes the time that we could otherwise produce (or create). Im not saying we cant relax, and we have to always create but I think we are here on this third rock from the sun for a bigger purpose than to just binge watch Netflix and Hulu our entire life. What can you create? How can you make creativity a part of your brand? Creativity The Most Important Leadership Quality () Back in 2010 Fast Company had an article titled The Most Important Leadership Quality for CEOs? Creativity   Of course, I heard this during my workout yesterday, while listening to a Ted talk :p The soundbite that stuck out was that about 60% of CEOs cited creativity as the most important leadership quality. This stood out to me for two reasons. First, I recently finished creating a Pluralsight course on how leaders can boost innovation in their teams. Really, this is a big fat course on how to be and think more creatively. Whether you are a leader of many or a leader of one (yourself), creativity is important. Even back in 2010 it was important. By the way, the article has a bunch of interesting nuggets what they thought about integrity, what they thought about global business, etc. Check it out. The second why the article stuck out was because for years my two favorite c words are creativity and curiosity. I wrote a blog post about this, but I cant find it right now. However, heres some quotes from me on Forbes where I talk about creativity and curiosity, again from 2010: The Seven Most Universal Job Skills. I never, ever thought I was creative. I couldnt draw well, I wasnt very good at artsy stuff One day I was talking to some career coaches and I said this to them and they got pretty excited. You arent creative? Jason, you created JibberJobber! You wrote two books! How can you think you arent creative? It was then that I learned that creativity doesnt mean being an artist. I learned that we can all create, and that we can all think creatively. Furthermore, Ive thought a lot over the years about how much we create vs. how much we consume. I am concerned that we live in a society that is hyper-focused on consumption, which takes the time that we could otherwise produce (or create). Im not saying we cant relax, and we have to always create but I think we are here on this third rock from the sun for a bigger purpose than to just binge watch Netflix and Hulu our entire life. What can you create? How can you make creativity a part of your brand?