Monday, March 24, 2008

CREATED TO BE CREATIVE


Leaders are creative. As a leader you are imaginative, insightful, ingenious, inventive, and intentional enabling you to evaluate, comprehend, and generate creative ideas, resources, solutions, and transforming actions.

How is it that a person like Archimedes could discover the law of buoyancy while taking a bath? That King Gillette could invent the safety razor while shaving? That Antoine Ludwig Feutchwanger would invent the world renowned hot dog? Or that Bill Gates would become the richest man in the world by starting a small technology business in his garage?

Why are people like these so creative? Some tell us that these inventors were born creative. That is, creativity is found in their genetic code. Others tell us that their creativity was the product of having grown up in the “right” environment.

The fact of the matter is that they – like you – were created to be creative. The very God that used His remarkable, unsurpassed imagination and ingenious creative ability to form the day and the night, the galaxies and solar systems, the dry ground and the waters, and the plants and animals, also created you – the glorious and crowning achievement of His act of creation.

In His divine providence, God gave you this same creative ability. Like God, you are imaginative, insightful, ingenious, inventive, and intentional. God endowed you with the capacity to evaluate, comprehend, and generate creative and resourceful ideas, solutions, and actions. The result is that by mirroring God’s creativity with your inherent creativity, you are empowered to bring about relevant and beneficial change in the events, people, materials, and circumstances in purposeful and transforming ways. You were created to be a full participant in bringing God’s kingdom to earth by filling the earth with His glory – through His created attributes.

The Truth of the Matter

Creativity is an essential leadership trait. Whether you like it or not, you happen to be living in a time when change is happening more rapidly than at any other time in human history. Unfortunately, this unprecedented pace of change is not going to get “better” – it’s only to get “worse.” At times you are being overwhelmed with tidal waves of new and increasingly specialized information; technology is outdated almost before it becomes available; you face a national and global economy that is fragile and unpredictable; and, businesses battle temperamental consumers whose demands and confidence seem to change by the hour. The success, and perhaps even the survival, of your organization (for-profit or not-for-profit), depends on having to do more with fewer resources. Many organizations – especially the people – find it necessary to reinvent themselves overnight, several times each year. Therefore, leaders of the third millennium must be creative and able to respond to the ever-changing demands of a volatile, rapidly-changing climate. Creative leadership is crucial to the short-term survivability and long-term success of each and every enterprise. Creative leadership is crucial to your personal effectiveness.


The truth of the matter is that you are creative. You were created to be creative. Creativity is an attribute given to each and every person – given to you – by God. Creativity is a crucial leadership trait. It is a trait that you must rediscover, claim, cultivate, and use in every dimension of your life. In doing so, you will be functioning as you were created to function, as a creative leader, as an image bearer of God. You have the very same creative capacity as Archimedes, King Gillette, Thomas Edison, or Bill Gates. You have the “right stuff” for leadership in the 21st century.

You are creative.

You are a leader.

This is the truth about leadership!

This is the Genesis Principle of Leadership.

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