Creativity is a state of mind. Creativity occurs when people are given the freedom to experiment and take risks. It can be the curiosity of one person, a collaborative group or people communicating from afar. The challenge sustaining creativity is forming a supportive culture for freedom and risk taking.
Individuals must be encouraged to ask questions, make recommendations and challenge status quo. They should be punished for not doing so; they should be mentored when not doing, to do. They need listening skills to hear what others say and the self confidence to build not destroy. They need to understand creativity is participation and learning from others. They have to embrace today’s work with tomorrow’s curiosity, combining both, making contributions to themselves as well as others.
Groups build and maintain creativity by collecting their wisdom and translating it into a common language to fully understand each other. They are then capable of expanding their wisdom by selecting and sharing creativity with others. When doing so the group will learn its role in the world in which it lives. It will be capable of drawing on new data sustaining creativity and building a thirst for others participation. The group will recognize the value of outside motivation for inspiration.
People communicating from afar must be prepared to share information without placing judgment. They must be willing to learn local customs that are not in their environment, they must be willing to listen to history, anecdotal and factual, that have positioned others in their current state and learn what their definition of creative is. Once they have grasped each others positions, dialogue can begin without insulting one another and contributions to common creativity can be structured. Afar situations require resolve, maintaining discipline, disagreeing without being disagreeable, for creativity to flourish.
Creativity is not just a Big Bang. It is a commitment to an environment that creates a culture of respect for new insight, rewarding those who participate and take risks and setting consequences for those who do not. Creativity is an end determined by the beginning.
Deep Insights
November 2006
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