When IBM recently polled 1500 CEOs across 60 countries, they rated creativity as the most important leadership competency.
Eighty percent of the CEOs said the business environment is growing so complex that it literally demands new ways of thinking. Less than 50 percent said they believed their organizations were equipped to deal effectively with this rising complexity.
But are CEOs and senior leaders really willing to make the transformational moves necessary to foster cultures of real creativity and innovation?
Here are the six fundamental moves we believe they must make. In all my travels, I've not yet come across a single company that systematically does even the majority of them, much less every one.
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Author: Tony Schwartz