Chapter 10Creative Leadership: Fulfilling the Promise of Leadership
The transition from the Reactive to the Creative Mind is arduous. Only about 20% of adults fully make it. It is the major transition in most adults' lives. In the Mythic literature, it is called the Hero's Journey or the Heroine's Journey. It is not for the faint of heart.
PERFORMANCE REVIEW
Before we launch into the nature of the Creative Mind and how it develops, let's summarize briefly what we have said about its effectiveness (Figure 10.1).
While Reactive Leadership styles are strongly inverse to Effectiveness (−.68), Creative Competencies are very strongly and positively correlated to Leadership Effectiveness (.93). In the highest performing businesses, those evaluated in the top 10% compared to industry peers, Creative Competency scores average at the 80th percentile compared to the worldwide norm base of 500,000 rater surveys. Reactive Leadership styles are well below the norm at the 30th percentile. The reverse is true in under-performing businesses (bottom 10%).
In our Stage of Development study (Figure 10.2), those people assessed as living and leading from a Creative Structure of Mind had average Leadership Effectiveness and Creative Competency scores at the 65th percentile compared to norms. This constitutes a Leadership Quotient of nearly ...
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