What is your creativity style?
Breakers, Makers, Takers or Critiques
Headers:
Some people are first hand innovators
They can get you things coming out of thin air
They provide breakthrough thinking and lateral thinking
They often provide
fundamental and simple solutions
Rare species
Makers:
Some are good as improvisers (2nd hand innovators)
Primary expertise of them is making thing even better
They need creative inputs to start on producing creative
contribution
Good for extending an idea further
Creativity is often tied to moods
Good for guided thinking and guided creativity
Organizations are benefited by these ones
Takers:
Some are creativity consumers or idea assemblers
They do mixing and combining till they get better results
Strength is in formulation of new ways those can be simple
combinations
Ideas are like Lego
bricks in their hands
Most practical way of solving problems
Organizations have them find solutions by keeping experimentations
get going
Critiques:
Some are not creative but simply rational
They need ideas to be presented to them and they can rate or ask
directed questions, often negative
Their strength is to as questions to rationalize what had to be
evaluated
Logical consequence is more important than sake of being creative
Take them seriously, nothing shall pass OK without they had chance
to comment
Do not put them on
creative fronts as they can be creativity killers to other style types
And which one you are?
You can be an
individual, a product marketer or a business entity
But Breakers, Makers, Takers or Critiques
You can rarely be more than one as primary
style,
You may exhibit and exploit all styles but
naturally good at only one
Having all style of mix in a team is required
to keep balance
