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Leading change is leading creativity.

Abstract

Leadership is the leading of creativity which leads to creative change. To innovate or die is the question that faces our health care future. It is no longer enough for us to operate with just our serial, mathematical thinking. We must also be concerned about the spirit and the heart and how we integrate this into whole brain thinking. The challenge for us is to constantly transform and rewire our brains through the creativity process and to rewire the processes of the places where we work. We know that we can cultivate and energize our organizations through the interplay of serial, parallel, and quantum thinking processes. But we can't wait. Health care and the world of nursing are changing rapidly. We need the creative processes to build the change needed for the future for the care of our patients.

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K Kerfoot. Leading change is leading creativity.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9592527/

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