CIL Schedule – SUBJECT TO CHANGE. Readings: A&K= Amabile & Kramer:
Progress Principle; Henry=Henry: Accidental Creative; Pink=Pink: Drive; ...
CIL Schedule – SUBJECT TO CHANGE Readings: A&K= Amabile & Kramer: Progress Principle; Henry=Henry: Accidental Creative; Pink=Pink: Drive; Sinek=Sinek: Start with Why; CAN=WWU Library E-reserve on Canvs, FC=Fast Company, WEB=online link provided in list of readings on page 7
Outline Introduction to Creativity, Innovation and Leadership
Date Week 1: Jan 8
Topic Introduction to course and course philosophy
Readings
Week 2: Jan 13
Questioning Assumptions and Expectations
What is Creativity?
Jan 15
Defining and Evaluating Creativity and Innovation
Week 3: Jan 20 Jan 22
Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Experimenting
Sinek Book Ch 1 McEntee WEB Breen FC Henry Ch 1 Amabile CAN Mumford CAN Safian FC Class does not meet
Week 4: Jan 27 Jan 29
Self-leadership and Creativity Experimenting – First Project Experimenting with Accidental Creativity
Self Leadership and Creativity
Week 5: Feb 3 Inspiring and Motivating Creativity
Feb 5 Week6: Feb 10 Feb 12 Week7: Feb 16 Feb 18
Experimenting with Small Wins Presidents’ Day Holiday Experimenting – Second Project Motivating Creativity in others
Assessment Design
***Field Trip***
Exercise #3
Henry Book Ch 2-10 Carmeli et al. CAN
Exercise #4 First Creativity Project Presentations Exercise #5 Second Creativity Project Assigned Guest Speaker
A&K Book Ch 1-5
Exercise #6
A&K Book Ch 6-9
Exercise #7
Class does not meet
Experimenting with Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose Creative Project Planning
***Field Trip***
Second Creativity Project Presentations Exercise #8 Third Creativity Project Assigned Exercise #9
Shalley & Gibson CAN
Exercise #10
Issue Selling
Tischler FC Warshaw FC
Exercise #11
Week10: Mar 10
Strategic Creativity
Sinek Book Ch 2-14 Catmul CAN Prokesch CAN
Mar 12
Concluding our Experimenting
Mar 20
Reflective Journal Due
Week8: Feb 24 Feb 26
Week9: Mar 3 Mar 5
Leading Creativity in the Future
Leading Creativity in Action The Progress Principle
Assignments Exercise #1 First Creativity Project Assigned Exercise #2
Pink Book Intro and Ch 1-6
Third Creativity Project Presentation
Creativity, Innovation and Leadership Page 2
WWU Library READINGS available via CANVAS 1. Amabile, Teresa (2001) Beyond talent: John Irving and the passionate craft of creativity. Harvard Business Review; April, pp 333-336. 2. Carmeli, A., Meitar, R., and Weisberg, J (2006) Self-leadership skills and innovative behavior at work. International Journal of Manpower 27(1): 75-90. 3. Catmul, Ed (2008) How Pixar fosters collective creativity. Harvard Business Review; September, pp 64-72. 4. Mumford, Michael (2000) Managing creative people: Strategies and tactics for innovation. Human Resource Management Review. 10(3): 313-351. 5. Prokesch, Steven (2009) How GE teaches teams to lead change. Harvard Business Review; January, pp 99-106. 6. Shalley, Christina & Lucy Gilson (2004) What leaders need to know: A review of social and contextual factors that can foster or hinder creativity. The Leadership Quarterly 15: 33-53. OTHER ONLINE READINGS 1. McEntee, Christina H (2012) Questioning our assumptions. Forbes Magazine Online. URL: http://www.forbes.com/sites/85broads/2012/01/18/questioning-our-assumptions/
From Fast Company: URL: http://www.fastcompany.com/ - See Course website page with direct links to each article. 1. Breen, B. (2004) “The 6 Myths of Creativity” December, Issue 89. 2. Chafkin, M. (2012/2013) “Not just another Web 2.0 company, Yelp basks in its star Power” December/January, Issue 171. 3. Safian, R. (2012) “Secrets of the Flux Leader” November, Issue 170. 4. Tischler, L. (2007) “IBM’s management makeover” December, Issue 88. 5. Warshaw, M (1998) “The good guy’s (and gal’s) guide to office politics” March, Issue 14.
