Pier’s Class I

First of all, I want to say this is an excellent class!! I will always remember what I have experienced today. We talked a lot about creative leadership and have some very inspiring activities together. There are  a few points I want to share here.

The raw materials of Creative Leadership
- ‘Constraints.’ i.e. Time constraints,  environment constraints and a open-mind to allow the birth of a good idea.
- ‘Principles.’ Creativity needs good principles but not limitations in terms of the working styles and format.

Three fears of a Creative Individuals
- fears of being wrong, being rude, seemingly mad.

Piers also explained what is an artist’s mind in his views, his belief is that ‘nothing is come from nothing’, everything must have a cause or a reason.  if you come across difficulties and got stuck with a creative process. It’s not too much to worry about, ‘metamorphosis  is unstoppable”, if you go nothing, it will still change!

This is so similar to my final year project for my undergraduate degree, I design a book and try to express a statement “allow unresolved“, it is an abstract psychological approach. It was about a year ago that I produced that, I still have a very high acceptance of this method of thinking, however I could have explained it further with the support of Pier’s idea. Also, where I was reading the articles written by Piers, the way how he express abstract idea taught me a lot and I could have express my idea in a better way. I am glad that I have a chance to have a class with him, it really do means a lot to me as we are similar kind of artists mentally!

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Notes from Leadership Sessions

Anyway, these is the notes I drop down from listening and discussing through the class of leadership, I am fairy new to this area therefore I learn a lot in this session and of course I will need further research.

Definitions of leadership approaches in 10 words.

1. Trait Approach – Born to be.

2. Contingency Approach – Best fit/ Keep Changing.

3. Transformational Approach – a lot of changes, focus of direction, make engagement.

4. Transactional Approach – doesn’t matter whose the leader but success of the tasks.

5. Post Heroic Approach – no true ability, but people loves the idea so follow.

6. Narcissistic Approach – in all aspects, in their own image, self-obsession.

And finally one point to make, leadership is not necessary to be an individual, it can be an IDEA.

>nicely finished<

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Portrait a affection through creative leadership.

Reflections on Leadership Sessions with Miguel

So we are having class with Miguel these two weeks and also got introduce to a PhD student at Kingston, Alia Weston.

I am very impressed with the session with Alia, her class is very interesting and I very enjoyed it. She can be my mentor because we share a few common background. Like how she went from an art  degree (jewelery design) to a MA business management course. We felt the importance of management in the business of creative industries, it is hugely affecting the success of a project and the future development of a bright idea.

Here I want to share this post I found online when it has an interview with Alia – ‘Postgraduate study relevant to your industry can make you stand out from the crowd’. I want to point out on the post it says business masters are more preferable than MBAs because masters graduates are more able to ‘hit the ground running.’ This is the impression I get from Alia. Despite she is a teacher, it is very important to have a character that is very down to earth, a cool team player and also knowledgeable. I also believe that this is what creative industries need and what companies are looking for nowadays, which bring to the tropic of this post.

Portrait an affection through creative leadership

A more creative approach to leadership is all about how to transform the team players and create emulation. To have a very high moral value as well as a very down to earth character is the key of being attractive character in a team. Some people are born with lovely characters but many of us in the world believed that it can be trained. I guess this is why we are all studying creative leadership right?

Here are a few important characters I think we should try to developed and maintain before we finished our education and became a leader.

1. Be honest and organise. – There is nothing wrong to send an email or ring somebody to say sorry I could not finished the job on time rather than disappear at the last minutes. I personally hate people doing this but I was once like that, and sometimes I still have that lazy thoughts.

2. ‘Use’ each other – Don’t be afraid to ask someone to help, joint power is always the best! However, while doing this we have to be independent enough and don’t drag other people to worse.

To be continue.

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