Creativity and innovation
Creativity may be defined as the development of original, novel, appropriate and useful ideas, while innovation implies the subsequent implementation of creative concepts within in an organizational. Self-leadership proponents have often suggested self-leadership and relationships between creativity/innovation. As DiLiello and Houghton(2008) suggest, many critical concepts from the creativity literature may be related to self-leadership. For example, autonomy and self determination are key components of both creativity and self-leadership. Yun et al. have provided empirical evidence suggesting that the need for autonomy may be positively related to individual self-leadership practices and autonomy is often identified as an essential component in individual creativity. For a more detailed overview of the relationships between self-leadership and creativity/innovation, see DiLiello and Houghton(2006). As these authors suggest, additional research is needed to further clarify the relationships between self leadership and creativity/innovation.