What Creative People Have in Their Resumes
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by Joe Wynne
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We are educating people the wrong way if we want them to become creative, according to Sir Kenneth Robinson and Mark Dziersk. That’s a problem because you need creative people to solve problems and design new solutions in your projects. The future will just bring new problems and unforeseen design elements required in solutions.
So how can you tell if candidates have been educated so that they can be creative and not intellectually constrained? It’s not tattooed on the back of their necks or in vocation chips implanted in their arms, unfortunately. One way to tell is to look for education that includes arts and literature, or other “atypical” intellectual development.
Workers with liberal arts in their skill set can boost team creativity consistent with business needs. They have already stretched their minds into many fields of endeavor and can apply concepts and techniques to your project. That is, unless your processes and people do not interfere. Perhaps it’s time for you to have recruiting and selection include checking for a liberal dose of liberal arts.
Posted on: January 07, 2008 07:25 AM |
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Philip Grech
CEO| Phil Grech
Burleigh Waters, Qld, Australia
Hi, I think you could same the same about any degree / diploma program. In my opinion, the greatest of the greatest PM's are obviously all highly intelligent but also carry with them an excellent dose communication knowhow. This of course is used to manage up (stakeholders/scope) and down (project team) alike.
my thoughts
pg
 | jodybat |
I have a Liberal Arts background and strongly agree... the secret is being an effective communicator and creative problem solver. You can't just think like an engineer and expect results all the time.
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