Leadership: Creativity and Innovation Leaders know in their gut that creativity and innovation are the life blood of their organization.

Leadership: Creativity and Innovation Leaders know in their gut that creativity and innovation are the life blood of their organization. New ideas can lead to programs that are superior to those that are already going on or planned in the organization and which would have been divested or never initiated had a better idea or program come along. So, the mission of every leader should be to search continually for ideas and programs that are …

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