Rory Sutherland: Perspective is everything. Climate for creativity and Innovation. The Climate for Creativity and Innovation Imagine the industrial organisation is represented by a tree.
The branch network could mirror the hierarchy of an organisation with People becoming the leaves. Let's imagine that the roots of the tree represent the culture of the organisation. They go deep. They hold everything in place. The second factor that affects the 'well being or life of our organisational tree is the climate. Climate represents the behaviour, attitudes and feelings of the organisation which in turn affect its operational processes (or life) in terms of communications, problem solving, decision making and how it learns.
The dimensions can be grouped into three areas of Resources, Motivation, and Exploration as follows: Resources: Idea Time; Idea Support; Challenge and Involvement Personal. Creativity: The Secret Behind the Secret. In 2010, IBM’s Institute for Business Value surveyed over 1,500 chief executives about the most important leadership competency for this new millennium.
Creativity was the across-the-board’s winner. No surprise, right? But this begs the eternal question: When scaling up your business, where in the heck does one find good creative talent? There’s lots of advice around, most of which is centered around a watch-and-wait kind of approach. See which people ask creative questions, see who comes up with interesting problem-solving solutions—that sort of thing. Is Your Idea Crazy Enough? Alcohol Benefits the Creative Process. Creative thought is something we often aspire to.
Whether it’s in terms of artistic products, scientific discoveries, or business innovations, creative accomplishments drive advancement in much of what we do. But what sorts of things enhance creativity ? A popular belief is that altered cognitive processing, whether from sleep , insanity, or alcohol use, sparks creativity among artists, composers, writers, and problem-solvers. Perhaps due to the fact that the rarity of great accomplishments make them hard to study, however, little research has actually shown how creative processes change when people, for example, have a few drinks. Why might being intoxicated lead to improved creativity? Michelle Borkin: Can astronomers help doctors?
How Rational Is Your Everyday Behavior? Thought Experiment about Chocolate. Stupidity Rules for Creative Professionals. I'm having trouble being stupid.
Productively stupid, that is. I have infinite reserves of unproductive stupidity—ignoring my car's oil light, losing my wallet, hiring the wrong person. That's the variety of a presidential candidate forgetting during a national debate which federal agencies he wants to eliminate ("Oops"). Myths of Right-Brained Creativity. Www.talentmanager.pt/download/SystemicThinking.pdf. Our discovery. Pattern Thinking Our foundational technology is Pattern Thinking, which enables us to identify productivity patterns that relieve the performance and satisfaction constraint in complex and challenging situations.
We get the results we get because we help our clients intervene at the end-to-end performance and satisfaction constraints - which is where the primary leverage points for improvement lie. Pattern Thinking enables us - and anyone who uses it - to deliberately and systematically identify the contraining pattern and develop small, counter-intuitive changes in approach that have a disproportionlately large and self-reinforcing impact on end-to-end performance and satisfaction. Find out more about Pattern Thinking here: Solution Library We've built a large and increasingly comprehensive library of breakthrough solutions to the seemingly unsolvable problems that hold people, organisations and our civilisation back. Groupthink - Decision Making Skills Training from MindTools. Avoiding Fatal Flaws in Group Decision Making © iStockphoto/gollykim Have you ever thought about speaking up in a meeting and then decided against it because you did not want to appear unsupportive of the group's efforts?
Or led a team in which the team members were reluctant to express their own opinions? Normative Innovation « futurethink's innovation weblog. The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet Brilliance. Do you enjoy having time to yourself, but always feel a little guilty about it?
Then Susan Cain’s “Quiet : The Power of Introverts” is for you. It’s part book, part manifesto. We live in a nation that values its extroverts – the outgoing, the lovers of crowds – but not the quiet types who change the world. She recently answered questions from Mind Matters editor Gareth Cook. Creativity Rocks! There are few things that are more satisfying than coming up with a creative solution to a vexing problem.
In fact, the feeling you get from finding a clever way out of a mess, of seeing old things in a new ways, or of making something from nothing can be wonderfully addictive. Unfortunatley, most people aren't encouraged to be creative in their everyday lives. They are given very specific instructions about what to do, whether in school or at work, and are measured by how accurately they replicate what others have done. This is a huge missed opportunity all the way around. Below are some of my favorite video clips of thought leaders talking about the value of creative problem solving. Freud Gaming Jung. ~ Otto Gross to Carl Jung in "A dangerous method"
Possibility Thinking. Don't Read This. Twelve Things You Were Not Taught in School About Creative Thinking. Turning the Pages™, the British Library. Famous Failures.