Creative organizations

Good piece from Sir Ken Robinson in Fast Company magazine -
The Principles of Creative Leadership

This is one of those areas where if you read what the CEO's say they need and compare it to how most of them run their enterprises and compare it with the structure and emphasis of the education and training institutions in theory preparing students to fill those needs... you see massive gaps.

How well do grades on standardized test prepare students to answer the challenge from these 3,000 CEO's?
"There was a report published in the fall by IBM called Capitalizing on Complexity. It was based on a survey of 3,000 CEOs of for-profit companies, non-profits, social entrepreneurship and public sectors from around the world asking what's on their minds. What was interesting about it was that this year the CEOs said they had three overall priorities. The first priority was running organizations that can respond to complexity because the world is getting more complex every day. Second was how to run organizations that are adaptable and resilient to these changes. But the top priority was how to promote creativity in organizations."