Master of Science in Leadership RG 5043

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.  For a while, knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.” ~ Albert Einstein             Masaru Ibuka, the founder of Sony, creativity is derived from finding the unexpected and stepping outside our experience.  According to Heimans, J. & Timms, H. (2004), critical is thinking and feeling differently as well as committing or focusing to something differently.  Cognitive thinking is about breeding new ideas; the affective or emotional side of creativity is all about our perception of the things around us; and lastly, the effortful side of creativity is about our self-restraint or self-containment (Heimans, J. & Timms, H. 2004). Listening If I were to assess and rank the five creative talents I possess, my first would be my listening ability.  After 20 years of being married to my husband, Eddie, he never failed to let me know that what attracted him most

Hoch & Kunreuther (2005), claimed that there is growing proof of evidence confirming how emotions play a significant role in our decision-making process most especially when there are inconsistent outcomes.  According to Shiv (2011), it is of utmost importance to invoke emotion to develop our decision confidence.  He further stated that with decision confidence comes with a passion that is very persuasive, where our confidence is contagious, and most importantly, the emotion that emerges from our decision has a huge impact in the extraction of the utility from our experience.  It has a direct bearing on our motivation and engagement in the successful performance of our critical tasks. Personally, my decision-making has always been tied to my personal values.  I have always believed that everybody deserves to be extended the benefit of the doubt.  So, when someone says hurtful things to me or treat me unfairly, my first instinct is the person must be experiencing some personal is

According to Bowden (2010), Cynefin Framework is a tool that allows management to see things from new perspectives, assimilating concepts that are complex, and resolving real-world threats and opportunities.  Management utilizing Cynefin framework helps management team make sense what context they are currently in so as they only not make better judgments and determinations but at the same time, evade the issues that may arise whenever their leadership style is the cause of their own mistakes.  Bowden (2010) builds Cynefin framework on three systems, and they are the ordered, the complex, and chaotic systems.  Then a new category is created which is called disorder and then dividing the order system into the simple and complicated domain. The simple domain is an ordered system where exist a cause and effect relationships that are predictable and determinable in advance.  In the human resources world, it has been our best practice to impose company policies, guidelines, and processes

            The Cynefin Framework has four different domains that warrant a different course of actions.  Simple and complicated contexts presuppose a universe that is in order where cause-and-effect relationships are sensible, and the correct answer or choice can be resolved based on the facts.  Then there are the complex and chaotic contexts where cause-and-effect have no apparent relationship, they are unordered, and the future is determined ascertained based on the emergence of patterns.  The unordered world is represented by pattern-based management while the ordered world is the fact-based management world (Snowden & Boone, 2007).             Back when I was the Title IX Coordinator and Assistant Director of HR at one of the local universities in Daytona Beach, Florida, I received a call from our Dean of Students and Safety and Security Director in the middle of the night regarding an alleged raped claim from one of our sophomore female students.  The female student who w