Dr Vlad Glaveanu shares three essential lessons for executives navigating AI: embrace constraints, foster playfulness, and keep ethics at the centre.

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How should leaders think about AI and creativity? In this episode, Mark Blackwell speaks with Dr Vlad Glaveanu, Professor of Psychology at Dublin City University, founder of the Possibility Studies Network, and editor of the Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible.

Vlad introduces Possibility Studies — a new field exploring how individuals and societies engage with what could be — and explains why constraints are essential to creativity rather than obstacles to it. He makes the case for "slow AI", arguing that the waiting and incubation that drive real innovation are at risk in our rush for instant answers.

The conversation covers:

• Why there is no creativity without constraints 
• The ethics of possibility — just because something could be, should it be? 
• How AI is reshaping our conception of creativity 
• The "bad idea brainstorm" technique for building psychological safety 
• What managers should prioritise when entering new markets or launching products

Vlad closes with three takeaways for any executive managing a team in the age of AI: welcome constraints and resistance, foster playfulness and trust, and never delegate to AI the business of humans.

Guest: Dr Vlad Glaveanu

• Professor of Psychology, Dublin City University
• Adjunct Professor, University of Bergen
• Founder & President, Possibility Studies Network
• Author of Wonder and Creativity: A Very Short Introduction

Resources mentioned:

• Possibility Studies Network: possibilitystudies.net
• Possibility Bots (Ron Beghetto)

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