Creative Leadership - AGSM interview Ralph Kerle

Creative Leadership: leading your staff out of the box Innovation – in 2009 it’s not just a word to be bandied about. The economy is forcing us to get creative. Innovation could be just what we need and it could be very good for business. What exactly is creative leadership? It’s not an easy question to answer, but Ralph Kerle is one person who is well qualified to offer an answer. Ralph is the Program Director of the AGSM Executive Programs Leading for Creativity and Innovation program. He is also the Executive Chairman of the Creative Leadership Forum and Founder of the Creative Skills Training Council, Asia Pacific. If asked to define creative leadership, Ralph can conjure 1001 different definitions off the cuff. When asked to pick just one, he chose the following: Creative leadership is the ability to lead others into a new, innovative and unknown future. Ralph compares creative leadership to the process of sculpting or playwriting.

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Creative Leadership can Transform Your Organisation - ThinkXchange interview Ralph Kerle

Ralph Kerle, Executive Chairman of the Creative Leadership Forum, explains the how to of creative leadership.

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Interview courtesy of ThinkXchange.com.au

Creative Leadership Coaching

When have you ever reached the level of total knowledge, or do we all need a coach? Here are articles on some of the subjects our leaders have been discussing needs for their coaching with us...

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The Software Engineer as Artist [Courtney Behm]

There is a perception in the general public about engineers…solid, grounded in facts, serious, cautious. They work logically, methodically, are disciplined by their profession into taking one step at a time. I used to have that perception myself, until I started working in high tech. At first, as a marketing professional, I was looking at the engineers I worked with from the outside in, and the assumptions held reasonably well. There’s no question that they were far more practical and pragmatic than I and my fellow marketeers. But when I moved from Marketing into Program Management, and began dealing with the development process at close range, my assumptions began to change.

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Strategic planning: Three tips for 2009

Even in these tumultuous times, strategic planning doesn’t have to be an exercise in anxiety—or futility. APRIL 2009 • Renée Dye, Olivier Sibony, and S. Patrick Viguerie Source: Strategy Practice & McKinsey Quarterly Strategic-planning season has arrived for many companies, and it couldn’t be more different than it has been in years past. Gone are the days of linear trend-extrapolation exercises that produce base, upside, and downside cases. Strategists, now facing the most profoundly uncertain times in their careers, are creating disaster scenarios that would have been unthinkable until recently and making the preservation of cash integral to their strategies.

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