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www.printisbig.com is a cool and highly informative interactive website that shows how print is still valuable, and why. Well worth a visit, and something that people providing print products and solutions can show to those who think print is a waste of paper.
I reviewed some research that demonstrates why creatives don’t wind up in leadership roles, generally, although a majority of CEOs believe that creativity is the key competency for our era:
The cultural bias against creatives as leaders, Stowe Boyd
A 2010 study of 1,500 CEOs by IBM yielded a few large insights. One was that over 60% believed that creativity is the most critical competency for CEOs today.
Creative leaders — they believe — are comfortable with disruptive innovation, both as a stressor impacting the company but also as a tool for competitive advantage. They are willing to refactor operations to produce better outcomes, inventing new ways of delivering value. They tolerate ambiguity well, and are courageous and visionary.
The disconnect is that, in general, people who demonstrate these sorts of capabilities — creatives — are often passed over for management jobs. In particular, we seem to have a cultural bias against creatives. They don’t line up with the typical leadership profile, and the nature of creatives is to introduce ambiguity, which unsettles people looking for certainty. Recent research by Jennifer S. Mueller (University of Pennsylvania), Jack Goncalo (Cornell University), and Dishan Kamdar (Indian School of Business), as reported in Recognizing Creative Leadership: Can Creative Idea Expression Negatively Relate to Perceptions of Leadership Potential?, shows this to be the case.
Go read the whole post.
(via emergentfutures)
Detail from Troll story (in production)…Troll cave; Troll Master doing his thing — helping others…
Detail from one of my book illustrations; Troll master and gull.
Shot of one of the spreads from a book I illustrated a while back My Story By Victor, Rat
Process shot, mid-point and final of one of the illustrations for the Troll book…
Process gif for one of the illustrations for current freelance project; the Troll book…
Yet another iteration of the ‘Crow pulls a dandelion’, a little closer to final. Still need to work out the objects immediately in front of the crow. The arrival of the new iMac should give a little bump in productivity…
Designed printed invite and envelope for recent Alumni event—also all the electronic pieces and the usual posters, etc. After taking better photos will post on Behance.
