Management Skills and Creativity

After a short introduction to creativity this paper discusses the research findings of a survey carried out in Hungary during the spring of 2004 by the Competitiveness Research Centre at the Corvinus University of Budapest. The main goal of the survey was to describe the competitiveness of the Hungarian micro sphere using a relatively big sample of companies at the moment of accession to the European Union. As a part of the survey the supportive role of creative skills in business success was also investigated. This is a snapshot of the analytical and intuitive skills of the sample and an effort to connect these results to the preferred decision making approaches of the responding managers.