Creativity in Management

Cracking the books...

This is a blog set up as a quick journal for an elective class in creativity in management... I'll update it once it a while and if possible post to it long after the class is over. I'm using the free blog service and not really putting much though into the layout and design right now due to time limitations.

This is a self-analysis/introduction about me. Mainly for the group/class but just to put some things out in writing to more understand where I’m coming from for the rest of this class.

I am currently in the product innovation management tract, MBA at NC State University, should graduate in December... Unless I decide to hang out another semester in the part-time program to take two other classes. My background is undergrad Industrial/Product Design also from NCSU focusing on design and development, mostly graphic/multimedia, interface/GUI and some universal (think senior/elderly - 'inclusive') design. I was in graphic and visual design industry; I now work the (pseudo) IT industry... I used to do a bit of freelance in graphic design and new media development - www.onebitpixel.com

My present job places me in Human Resources – which on most occasions is devoid of creativity… I’m a Webmaster/HRIS/Staff Development Specialist for NC DHHS while I finish up my MBA. Any extra time outside family, work and school I use to watch movies or play World of Warcraft. I used to be more active, cycling and climbing but climbing went away after I got married... Lately, I fill in as a dial-up consultant/producer/project manager for a friend of mine at Distill Advertising Group, in downtown Raleigh, until they get their PM/Producer back from maternity leave.

Last year my Myers Brigg type was INTJ but a few years before it was something else (INFP?)... I think due to a big shift from doing straight creative work and gradually moving into it. On Gardener’s Multiple Intelligence Test my learning style “test” showed that I scored high (9 or 10) on logical/mathematical, visual-spatial, musical, intrapersonal, naturalist and med-high (7 or 8) on linguistic, interpersonal and bodily-kinesthetic.

My first language is not English but I was so mainstreamed (Carter administration) that I’ve long since forgotten how to speak Mandarin – I do know when my mother is talking about me to her friends.... Took French in high school because Spanish was full and dabbled in Latin just to pick up on Roman/Greek history. I come from a military family. I've lived up north, grew up down south and traveled the world... I'm a fast talker, spit out a lot of ideas and ask questions to the point of annoying people... I am a visual thinker... I doodle, I like to line up french-fries before eating them, but I don't think I am obsessive compulsive. It doesn't bother me too much if I don't stick to a schedule but keeping to one is fine too, hence the project management background in software/multimedia development... I write in stream of thought consciousness and tend to use lowercase far more then I technically should.

Cheers.
Lee.

posted by William Cherry @ 9:25 PM