Week 3 Insights

Question 1

Creative “Techie” Types and Behaviors

Some of the creative “techie” types discussed include:

• Cognitive and spontaneous type
• Emotional and Spontaneous Type
• There is a great paradigm shift from the past creative techies and the current ones.
• Current creative techies that are discussed in week 3 show great traits based on the invention and innovation they have made.

Ways of Positively Influencing Creatives

Ways of positively influencing creatives discussed here include:

• Embracing the paradox between economic value and organizational capability.
• Developing a conclusive process of imagination.
• Embracing spontaneity.
• Using incentives as a reward system.
• Acting as a consultant or intermediary to consultant.

Question 2

Desired Technique for Positive Influence

• My desired technique for positive influence is enabling others to act. Under this, there are several facets which include:
• Involving employees in planning for the actions that affect them promotes productivity.
• Enabling employees to act will help them gain personal and professional stake.
• Creating an atmosphere of trust and mutual respect.
• Giving employees freedom to make their own decisions.
• One of the techniques I will use as a leader is enabling others to act.
• By enabling colleagues to act, I can give them the freedom to make their own decisions.
• By enabling others to act, I will create an atmosphere of trust and mutual respect. With trust and mutual respect, there will be an availability of a focused and positive working atmosphere.
• By embracing the three pillars of enabling others to act, I will enhance employee involvement in work processes.

Question 3

Using Continued Differentiation in Enhancing My Profession

Continued differentiation will enhance my profession through:

• It will help me deal with the financial climate.
• Embracing market research.
• Differentiating periodically from the start.
• Continued differentiation was something that could give me an enhanced ability to discern where to stake my profession.
• At first, I must understand that a larger percent of the customers will not understand the need for the product on inception.
• This clearly shows that the two companies were not ready for what they were doing. This can also be looked like the companies not doing their market research well to understand their products' capability.
• Based on these cases, I understand that it is essential that market research is given priority before developing a product to serve that market. This way, I will address all the needs to solve the customer's needs.

• In the same way, continued differentiation in the products I introduce to the market and the skills I process are essential in chanting the way forward for my career.
• I acknowledge that we will have competitors in the market, and differentiation will be the keyway to success.