11 Leading for Creative Synthesis

A Process-Based Model for Creative Leadership

Sarah Harvey, Chia-yu Kou and Wenxin Xie

Introduction

Organizations rely on groups and teams to come up with breakthrough new ideas. This is particularly evident in creative industries like product design, filmmaking, television and music where groups of professionals work together to come up with creative art and music, consumer products, policy recommendations, research projects and a variety of other innovative outputs (Elsbach & Flynn, 2013; Elsbach & Kramer, 2003; Harvey & Kou, 2013; Hargadon & Bechky, 2006; Long-Lingo & O’Mahony, 2010; Sutton & Hargadon, 1996). Those groups display distinct characteristics that create challenges for the process of developing ...

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