This week’s challenge was quiet interesting. The class was introduced to notion of creative process and what it means to get $#!T done or make things happen. Two main resources we used was this pretty cool lecture on creativity by John Cleese.  It is little dated, but is content still very accurate and applicable to today’s needs. Which makes this resource pretty valuable and timeless.

The second resource was the book called Making Ideas Happen by Scott Belsky,

At this point in my journey I can’t really tell how much progress I’ve made in being a better leader. It does feel like the time and perspective are changing but I’m still in the same place in life. Then I look back just 3 to 4 short weeks ago and I can see a distance between the person I was at the beginning of this journey and the person I am becoming. While I am not able to confidently say I have it all figured and mapped out.

I don’t actually like long travels with missed flights, long layovers and cancellations, but this week was an emotional trip. As the old saying goes when it rains it pours. Without going into too much detail, my world felt like it was collapsing upon me.  One of my kids missed first days of school due to illness, the other didn’t have a school to go to because she was still on a waiting lists for preschools of our choice.

To create my Creative Leadership Metrics Dashboard I relied on standards from personal experience. Because I had a plethora of bad bosses to draw from, I learned how not to be a bad leader. The list of standards I came up with reflects the qualities most of those poor leaders lacked. Little did I l know I would rate myself by same standards. Let’s see how I stack up:

Accountability 4

I exceed this standards ad nauseam.