What is Creative Style and How Do I Manage Creative Diversity?
Written by Sandy Cormack
Creative style is, quite literally, the style of your creativity.
Creative style does not refer to how
creative you are – instead, it answers the question ‘How am I...
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What is Creative Style and How Do I Manage Creative Diversity?
Written by Sandy Cormack
Creative style is, quite literally, the style of your creativity.
Creative style does not refer to how
creative you are – instead, it answers the question ‘How am I creative?’
Creative style is thinking style.
It is the manner in which you go about solving problems.
Although all people are creative and can solve problems, not everyone does so in the same
manner.
Creative style theory was pioneered by Dr.
Michael Kirton in the 60s.
He sought to determine
why certain organizational initiatives succeeded while others failed.
Creative style theory
addresses this phenomenon.
When people think about creativity, they generally think of what you might call ‘creative level.
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In other words, Person A is more or less creative than Person B.
In this manner we associate creativity with things like talent, intellect, ability.
DaVinci is more
creative than the guy who can draw Blinky from the art school
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