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http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=eLeaderShip
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August 30, 2016 5:37 AM
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Successful leaders know that they must get out of their comfort zone to succeed. Great leaders from history are those who have spent a large amount of their time outside their comfort zone. . Leaders who take risks and step into their learning zone are those that succeed. It’s only when you can give up what’s safe and familiar that you create opportunities and develop new capabilities. As you do, you expand your influence and gain the skills required to take on bigger and bigger challenges. . In this sense, leaders are self-made and not born, they are developed, not promoted. Leadership is a learned skill that is developed as you step out of your comfort zone. . Learn more: . - http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=LeaderShip Via Patti Kinney, Gust MEES
Marlena Gross-Taylor's curator insight,
May 17, 2015 10:24 AM
To be a fearless, 360 leader you have to step outside of your comfort zone. The experience provides the opportunity for growth! #leadupchat #edchat #mschat 
Dr. Deborah Brennan's curator insight,
May 17, 2015 11:54 AM
Vygotsky talked of the Zone of Proximal Development, and this article is in line with that foundational philosophy about learning. When we think about improving schools, both of Vygotsky and this article apply. We need leaders, teachers, and students operating outside their comfort zone, taking risks, setting goals, and learning. There is a danger in struggling schools to push too hard and move buying the productive zone for learning. This article speaks well to that aspect of learning. With good intentions, leaders at building, district, and state level often push a school and omits staff beyond the productive learning zone into the danger zone. This is done through programs, initiatives, and monitoring often with the goal of providing support, but with the result of overwhelming the school and staff.
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Suspends Judgment – Silences the Inner Critic
The ability to hold off on judging or critiquing an idea is important in the process of creativity. Often great ideas start as crazy ones – if critique is applied too early the idea will be killed and never developed into something useful and useable. (note – this doesn’t mean there is never a time for critique or judgement in the creative process – it’s actually key – but there is a time and place for it). (http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/05/09/9-attitudes-of-highly-creative-people/) Many new ideas, because they are new and unfamiliar, seem strange, odd, bizarre, even repulsive. Only later do they become “obviously” great. Other ideas, in their original incarnations, are indeed weird, but they lead to practical, beautiful, elegant things. Thus, it is important for the creative thinker to be able to suspend judgment when new ideas are arriving, to have an optimistic attitude toward ideas in general. Tolerates Ambiguity
Persists Even When Confronted with Skepticism & Rejection
Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Creativity
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James J. Goldsmith's curator insight,
March 16, 2015 2:24 PM
From the article: "Mindsets are simply defined as 'the ideas and attitudes with which a person approaches a situation.' Mindsets imply that mental and attitudinal states can assist one in being successful with a given skill set. I believe this to be true for engaging in the creative process, that a creative mindset is a prerequisite to being creative." Of particular interest to brainstormers. 
Catharine Bramkamp's curator insight,
March 17, 2015 2:42 PM
Creatives are simultaneously essential and aggravating. You know who you are, you are the person at the board table asking why? No one wants to answer you so they pass you over. But that is one of the strongest attributes of a creative mind: why? Why have we always done it this way? Why are we promoting our products this way? Why are we meeting? Ask one why question a day - just to keep limber. 
Barbara Wilson's curator insight,
March 18, 2015 7:43 AM
I love the graphic here and so agree with this overview of creativity |
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Successful leaders know that they must get out of their comfort zone to succeed. Great leaders from history are those who have spent a large amount of their time outside their comfort zone. . Leaders who take risks and step into their learning zone are those that succeed. It’s only when you can give up what’s safe and familiar that you create opportunities and develop new capabilities. As you do, you expand your influence and gain the skills required to take on bigger and bigger challenges. . In this sense, leaders are self-made and not born, they are developed, not promoted. Leadership is a learned skill that is developed as you step out of your comfort zone. . Learn more: . - http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=LeaderShip Via Patti Kinney, Gust MEES
Marlena Gross-Taylor's curator insight,
May 17, 2015 10:24 AM
To be a fearless, 360 leader you have to step outside of your comfort zone. The experience provides the opportunity for growth! #leadupchat #edchat #mschat
Dr. Deborah Brennan's curator insight,
May 17, 2015 11:54 AM
Vygotsky talked of the Zone of Proximal Development, and this article is in line with that foundational philosophy about learning. When we think about improving schools, both of Vygotsky and this article apply. We need leaders, teachers, and students operating outside their comfort zone, taking risks, setting goals, and learning. There is a danger in struggling schools to push too hard and move buying the productive zone for learning. This article speaks well to that aspect of learning. With good intentions, leaders at building, district, and state level often push a school and omits staff beyond the productive learning zone into the danger zone. This is done through programs, initiatives, and monitoring often with the goal of providing support, but with the result of overwhelming the school and staff. |
