DEJ Post #7 – Callie Twiford

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After reading the article “The Role of Values in Leadership: How Leaders’ Values Shape Value Creation”, I noticed the similarities between this article and one that I had to read for my Critical and Creative Decision Making Models class this week. This article argues that leaders’ values act as lenses that help them to interpret challenges in creative and critical decision making. The article “Measuring What Matters Assessing Creativity, Critical Thinking, and the Design Process” talks about how testing does not measure the ability to be a leader and that it is more important to see the design process and thinking that got the person to the answer or choice they selected. I can connect these articles because they both reflect on the process and values that go into making someone a leader as opposed to just evaluating a test score or decision.

I can also connect this article to my personal life because as a marketing student I spend a lot of time working with many different types of people. For example in my brand promotion class, my team is tasked with creating a brand positioning map and creative brief that will lead us into our final presentation. This will allow us to put our different values and strategies together to show our professor the way we got to our final production.

Lichtenstein, Scott. The Role of Values in Leadership: How Leaders’ Values Shape Value Creation. Integral Leadership Review, 2012

Shively, Kate, Krista M. Stith, and Lisa DaVia Rubenstein. “Measuring What Matters: Assessing Creativity, Critical Thinking, and the Design Process.” Gifted Child Today, vol. 42, no. 1, 2019, pp. 37–47