The creative leadership: transcultural prospect

Development of innovative activity and entrepreneurship in the modern conditions poses new questions and opens prospects for a rethinking of traditional problems of leadership. Based on recent psychosemantic studies of some leading entrepreneurs their distinctive characteristics were identified: considerably expressed conceptualization of the main and key psychosemantic communicative worlds: "I am as a leader" and "Members of my team". The intensity of conceptualization was understood as expressiveness among the leaders of conceptual assimilation of burning problems and contradictions. The second difference consists in a more expressed decentration of psychosemantic focus of attention of the leaders to the world of "Members of my team". Article is devoted to the formation and the proof of a hypothesis of the communicative and conceptual nature of creative leadership and opportunities of its development in the conditions of university education. The concept of creative leadership comes to light through the analysis of historical transformation of ideas of a superleadership phenomenon. In the long term developments of the concept of "superleadership", a concept of "creative leadership" is considered as a breakthrough project and a new transcultural metaposition and metaprospect in development of a new psychological environment for creative groups as an opportunity to overcome the chronic presence of traditional concepts of leadership at textbooks which stopped being relevant to modern living conditions. Creative leadership is understood as an authentic communication as primary creativity and coauthorship of a leader with his employees. Employees thus gradually and naturally become co-leaders of a unified creative process in finding solutions for innovative tasks. The concept of creative leadership organically incorporates the classical scheme of creative process by G. Wallace and the modern multidimensional typological model of a creative person by O. Kreger and D. Goldstein based on psychological typology and a method Myers -Briggs (MBTI). The conceptual scheme of creative leadership is specified by means of the Model of escalation of achievements of a creative person developed by us earlier. It has a four-dimensional structure including stress-mobilization when encountering the Unknown, reorientation on the basis of search activity and immersion in the New, transformation of a position due to new discovered solutions and development of a new way of life in a new position and form. At this stress-trance-formation a creative leader shares risks of transformation and responsibility with participants who become his creative co-leaders. It results in a high-quality transformation of the psychological and creatively oriented environment of the team working on a breakthrough project. The article also presents the experience of formation of such abilities and competences of Master's program graduates at Tomsk state university.

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