Charles Day is an accidental consultant. After building a successful, creative film editing company others started asking for his input on developing their company to be more creative. In this episode, he shares his insights and what he’s learned about organizational creativity.
What You’ll Learn


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Common practices of the most creative businesses

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Three elements leaders need to do a lead a creative organization

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Four weapons every leader needs – and they don’t cost anything


About Charles Day
In addition to running The Lookinglass, Charles is a Principal of the Boswell Group which provides psychodynamic management consulting to CEOs, corporate directors, and senior leaders. He is also an Adjunct Professor at New York’s Columbia University, where he has taught the art and science of building companies that unlock ‘Profitable Creativity’, and he coaches at The Harvard Business School in their Executive Education Program. Charles writes frequently for Fast Company and speaks regularly on Creative Leadership.
Resources

* Climer Consulting Resources Page
* Episode #100 – Want to be a guest?
* Charles Day’s website
* Episode #69 with Greg Climer
* Fast Company article: How To Achieve Profitable Creativity, The Secret Fuel Of Exceptional Companies by Charles Day
* Leave a review on iTunes

Weekly Challenge
See if you can identify everyday creativity within yourself and others. Acknowledge the creativity and focus on giving creative feedback.
Transcript
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Transcript for Episode #096: Leading Creative Organizations with Charles Day
Amy Climer: Welcome to The Deliberate Creative podcast Episode 96. In today’s episode I am talking with Charles Day and we are talking about leading creative organizations.
Before I introduce Charles, I want to share with you two announcements. The first is a gift for you, really, and that is updated brand new resources page on my website. If you go to www.climerconsulting.com/resources, head on over there you will find, basically, I just talk about my favorite books on creativity, leadership and teams. The page has been there for a while, but quite honestly, it was pretty sad. It is much better now. Head on over there if you are looking for some new resources and books on creativity.
The other thing I want to talk about is Episode 100. Oh my gosh! It is only four episodes away. I am so excited about this. I cannot believe that I actually made it to Episode 100. And honestly, I would not have done this without you. If I did not see the stats and get the emails from you all and the notes on LinkedIn and Twitter and Facebook saying, “Hey, I’m listening, and this is awesome! Yay, thank you,” it says to me that you are trying to help make the world a more creative place,