Creative Leaders
Introduction: Malcolm Knowles calls it creative leadership and proposes several characteristics of creative leaders that teachers has to have and follow to be a leader.
Creative leaders make a different set of assumption (essentially positive) about human nature from the assumptions (essentially negative) made by controlling leaders.
Creative leaders believe in and use the power of self-fulfilling prophesy.
Creative leaders highly value individuality. They sense that people perform at a higher level when they are operating on the basis of their unique strength, talents, interests, and goals than when they are trying to conform to some imposed stereotype.
Creative leaders stimulate and reward creativity.
Creative leaders are committed to a process of continues change and are skilful in managing change.
Creative leaders emphasize internal motivators over external motivators.
Creative leaders encourage people to be self-directing.
Conclusion: To be a creative leader i want to emphasys in this words C: reative leaders accept as a law of human nature that people feel a commitment to a decision in proportion to the extend that they feel they have participated in making it.