Emotional Kindergarten: Cross-cultural Research about Leadership of Creative Personalities

Leadership is one of the oldest phenomena in the history of social sciences and management. Yet, as a research area still it has lots of virgin fields, one of them surely being the challenge of leading creative personality's in other words complex personalities. In art creating projects, such as dance performance projects, a choreographer realizes the creative process with his/her fellow artists e.g. dancers, light designers, sound designers etc., leading them towards a unique goal of the project. This research aims at bringing a better understanding of leadership challenges in such complex art creating projects. The curiosity of success in leading people, especially the people whose work is much related to their inner selves and emotions and understanding the needs of creative personalities and the leadership style required to move them forward are the very core of this paper. The background of the study, reasons behind the need of research, methodology with the first insights from the researcher's case study works and preliminary findings of the research is defined.