Creativity Revisited
In May of last year I challenged (blog post) a Business Week article that claimed CEOs were looking for leaders with “Creativity”. In short, I countered with the idea that people are poor judges of what they think they want vs. what they truly need. Today I read an interesting article in Bnet (great site for any business leader to peruse) that said pretty much the same thing. Of course, they came to that conclusion a year after I did (shameless, self-serving plug).
What they found was that people who were rated at being very creative were not usually rated very strong at being leaders. So, again, the next time someone is asking you to find them a creative leader, or multi-tasking receptionist, or a hard-charging manager, you might benefit from taking the time to figure out whether or not you are getting a wish list or what is genuinely needed for top performance in that role.
Tags: Competencies, Hire, Mike Norton