Creative Leadership

Preface

Seven years ago, a series of stimulating conversations propelled us to defamiliarize a familiar question: What do creative leaders do? The question appeared embarrassingly simple, considering that the three of us have devoted our academic careers to researching and teaching creativity and leadership. It turns out, however, that we found it hard to come up with a mutually agreed concise answer. What made the task of answering the question difficult was not the shortage of knowledge but the profusion of it. We realized that far beyond our shared knowledge base on the subject, each one of us had accessed in the past additional reservoirs of scientific knowledge that the other two were, at best, only mildly familiar with. We eventually reached ...