How to spot and cultivate creative leaders

SPOTTING 21ST CENTURY TALENT & CULTIVATING CREATIVE LEADERS Throughout much of the 20th century, recruiting talent required finding people with a high IQ: verbal, analytical, mathematical and logical cleverness. Hiring candidates with the right credentials and relevant competencies often proved to be the most important determinant of future business success. These factors no longer suffice in today's volatile and complex business world. Top talent requires a different set of skills. In this piece from THNK Insights, Laurie Kemp and THNK Co-Founder Menno van Dijk discuss the new era of talent spotting. Read more to find out what factors determine your new hire's ability to adapt and grow into increasingly complex roles and environments, as well as how to spot and nurture creative teams.

PUSH TO PULL: RETHINKING INNOVATION Businesses that mobilize the right mix of resources to the right products and services tend to beat out the competition simply because they're more efficient at "pushing" their standardized and mass-produced goods onto the market. What if we scrapped this approach? The new wave of innovation is ditching the "push" model in favor of one that "pulls". As consumer audiences diversify and uncertainty grows, how might new platforms be designed to flexibly accommodate diverse providers and consumers of resources? In their piece for THNK Insights, Faculty Karim Benammar and THNK Co-Founders Menno van Dijk andBas Verhart illuminate this exciting new trend in the business world.  A SEA OF TROUBLES: PROTECTING OUR OCEANS What has the power to curb poverty and hunger, promote ecological and societal health, stimulate economic growth, counteract climate change, and limit international conflict? If you guessed ocean conservation (perhaps spurred on by the image above), then you're absolutely correct! Now, I know what you're thinking. How could such a perfect panacea be hiding in plain sight for so long without being noticed? It turns out that the vital role our oceans play in our survival is widely misunderstood. Check out THNKer Ayana Elizabeth Johnson's guest blog for National Geographic discussing the links between ocean conservation and practically every other UN Sustainable Development Goal.

"When I stumbled on THNK, the Creative Leadership Program content was in sync with everything I wanted to do. The main motivations to join were the values of THNK, the focus on social impact, the creative side of leadership, and venture acceleration. The program is really robust and the investment is worth it."  Charles Ojei | THNKer, Lagos