June 2007 Deep Insights

Creativity is subjective in the eye of the beholder. Creativity can be the creation of something new or collectables repackaged to meet emerging needs or my opinion of. A definition is elusive and may best be found in a process encouraging participation surfacing insights and trends leading to ideas driving results to an unexpected level.

Participation, collaboration, sharing information, asking questions, searching for facts, understanding circumstances and the environment, it is a process that welcomes everyone through a culture that respects an individual’s right to be different. It is a world where fear is non-existent, freedom reigns and guilt afflicts those who do not speak out. It’s a culture where failure is a learning experience, an opportunity to expand everyone’s knowledge; a second in time, a step on the path, an experience waiting for NEXT.

Insights and trends drawn from participation provide knowledge built from diverse views of a world willing to become transparent, a willingness to invite others to understand their communities and provide products benefiting people and organizations. Building relationships for future insights and sustaining participation not knowing the influence of one on another. They are vehicles for change in a chaotic environment where full control is no control.

Ideas surface when open participation is encouraged welcoming communities with diverse views to understand each other. They must accept co-existence of safe havens and free zones. Where individual ideas are not judged but used to stimulate and build more ideas. Where right or wrong is not the issue but results are the goal.

Creativity is leadership holding itself accountable for a culture that embraces ideas, trends and insights limiting its telling to establishing standards enhancing participation.