Anatomy of Creative Leadership by Russ Schoen

Comment from Guido Pozo
Time: November 1, 2006, 9:41 am

I think this is a great discussion in a professional forum or over coffee. Either way there are two distinct differences that I think exist between Creativity and Innovation The main difference for me is really dependant on what the intended purpose is. Lets assume it keeps the same theme around driving an inititive or meeting a certain goal. Under this assumption, creativity though drenched in original thought, I still believe is taken from a previous idea. You may argue that things are truly “creative”, but it is still a different viewpoint on a typically already stated process or system. So, I guess Innovation is the 2nd tier version of Creativity. It is a more measureable version. they are ideally the same thing, with Innovation being the younger brother of creativity. So here are my defitinitions: Creativity is the act of applying an infiinite amount of possibilities to an original or stated thought or process. Innovation is the measurable version of creativity. I love the blog!