Most of us have encountered a leader who uses meetings as personal brainstorming time. Everyone leaves feeling confused or uncertain about what to do next. That same leader might also have a reputation for rapidly expressing several vague ideas at once. These ideas might even be so vague as to seem contradictory, yet nonetheless, the leader expects the team to implement them.
Chances are good that this leader is manifesting the dark side of creativity. At Hogan, we call this Imaginative behavior, which occurs when imagination derails performance and teams suffer from the resulting confusion and lack of direction.
