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Nurture the Genii: Possibilities

In: The Handbook of Creativity & Innovation in Business

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  • Rouxelle Villiers

    (Auckland University of Technology)

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In this final chapter, we return to the individual, who is an important cog in the wheel of the business invention thinking machine (Kucirkova N, Littleton K, Cremin T. Cambr J Educ 47: 67–84, 2017). Our problem-solving capacities and creative minds allow us to design, compose, and alter the world we live in. As indicated many times in this book, all humans are born with an inherent ability to be creative, and it is our diverse nature and our diverse insights into problems that allow us to survive and thrive in the harsh reality of volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous (VUCA) environments. Business executives in VUCA marketplaces have to become very comfortable with – and perhaps even pursue – constant change and variability. Creative leaders like trying new things; they dislike repetition for the sake of conforming or keeping things as they are. Creative genii never stop developing and never stop learning. Fast-paced competency development and creative intelligence gathering involves doing different, difficult and challenging things sooner rather than later. “Different and difficult serve as constraints that preclude low and promote high variability” (Stokes PD. Creativity from constraints: the psychology of breakthrough. Springer, New York, 2006, pp 135). This chapter is focused on unfolding the last of the seven Ps: possibilities.

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  • Rouxelle Villiers, 2022. "Nurture the Genii: Possibilities," Springer Books, in: Rouxelle de Villiers (ed.), The Handbook of Creativity & Innovation in Business, chapter 0, pages 427-453, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-19-2180-3_20
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-2180-3_20
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