Importance of Creative Thinking Skills in a Manager

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Introduction
Creative thinking is the ability to look into something in a new and broader way. It can be
also said as thinking something out of the box. Creative thinking is the sense, which involves
what is called lateral thinking or the ability in perceiving the patterns, which are not obvious
(Paul 2018). Creative people have the ability to carry out tasks, solve the existing problems, and
bring fresh ideas in a new way. The basic difference between skills and competencies is that
skills define specific learned activities and they range in a broader term of complexity (Van
Merriënboer and Kirschner 2017). However, skills does not provide the answers related with a
“how” that is how does a person perform the job successfully.
The aim of the paper is understand the importance of creative thinking skills in a manager. It will
also discuss the traditional as well as the modern methods of creative thinking skills of a manger
in a business organization.
Importance of Creative thinking
Creative thinking is one of the most important skills that is required by the managers
running business today. Creative thinking enables the managers to run the business with
innovation and thereby ensuring success. The manager of the organization must have the
potential to undertake the risk of implementing new ideas and innovation n the organization.
Creative thinking is highly important as it helps to eliminate the occurring problems in the
organization. As the world’s changes, there is advancement in the technologies and new business
practices implemented in the organization in order to cope up with the changing environment.
Therefore, creative thinking should be highly focused on a developing the creative thinking skills

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which is important to adapt with the ever changing environment (Rawlinson 2017). Creative
thinking in the organization helps to explore and discover various connections, meets the new
occurring challenges and problems and helps to seek innovative, original and different solutions.
All the managers from the world famous organizations today are known for their creativity.
Process of creative thinking
Creative thinking involves connecting various experiences and synthesizing new things
and implementing them in the functions and activities of the organization. Therefore, we can say
that creative thinking is an important skill that is required to develop every day by the mangers.
The managers of the organization is required to break the usual patterns of running the business
or the organization and eliminate the traditional way of thinking or traditional approach towards
the business activities and implement creative thinking to enable new ideas and innovation in the
organization (Kasim and Wahyuni, 2018). The managers can connect various experiences to
meet the current challenges and problems with the help of creative solutions. The managers of
the organization are required to collaborate different ideas and thoughts and utilize the good
communication skills, which is essential for the smooth performance of the organization.
Creative thinking managers are usually open-minded. They appreciate criticisms, and enable new
creative solutions and ideas. It is an important requirement in the organization that the managers
explore new ideas and strategies though creative thinking to undertake various risks involved in
the organization. Creative thinking is important in the organization as it generates innovative and
original problem solving solutions. As the world is advancing at a remarkable pace, therefore
creative thinking is very crucial for any organization, as it enables the organization to adapt to
the changing situations. Creating thinking generates the ability to apply innovative thinking in a
digitalized environment. Creative thinking is a characteristic of a successful manager. Be the