Business Executives Lacking Creativity - Business Sustainability to the Rescue

How attached are you to your ideas?  To your business plan? Let's get more specific.  Are you attached to results - whether that is growth or profit or are you attached to how you get there?  Does it matter?

As Glen Beaman said, "Stubbornness does have its helpful features.  You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.  Viewed from the lens of a sustainability consultant, it seems if you are attached to the traditional means of which to grow your business, you might be getting the same results tomorrow that you are getting today.   The post, You Can't Solve the Problem with the Same Thinking that Created It, addresses this precisely.   You've heard it before, "If you always do what you've always done, then you'll always get what you always got."  In other words, you can't solve the problem with the same thinking that created it.  Such is the case with climate change, carbon, water, and the evolving business landscape.   So, if doing what you have always done isn't going to cut it, then what is?    Creativity.   According to the post, The Two Innovation Challenges,  a recent IBM CEO study states that  when CEO's were "asked to prioritize the three most important leadership qualities in the new economic environment, creativity was the one they selected more than any other choice.  Why is creativity important in leaders? The report argues that creativity is the basis for "disruptive innovation and continuous re-invention ... this requires bold, breakthrough thinking."    How are creativity and business sustainability intertwined?  Click here to continue reading.  

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