The Best “Divergent Thinking” Quotes of “Digital Master” Mar. 2019

Creativity needs a balance of divergent and convergent thinking, the latter isn't valued enough.

“Digital Master” is the series of guidebooks (27+ books) to perceive the multi-faceted impact digital is making to the businesses and society, help forward-thinking organizations navigate through the journey in a systematic way, and avoid “rogue digital.” It perceives the emergent trends of digital leadership, advises on how to run a digital IT organization to unleash its full potential and improve agility, maturity, and provide insight about Change Management. It also instructs the digital workforce on how to shape a game-changing digital mindset and build the right set of digital capabilities to compete for the future. Here is a set of “Divergent Thinking” quotes in “Digital Master.’

1 Divergent thinkers develop mental techniques to come up with great ideas and explore different solutions to the problem.

2 The divergent thinking is sort of free thinking to keep your mind free, to explore and question.

3 Developing creativity requires both self-awareness and internal motivation, divergent and convergent thought processes.

4 Innovation is like a breathing cycle: inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale, diverge, converge, diverge, converge.

5 One of the biggest challenges in this complex digital world with high velocity and uncertainty is the fact that we need different perspectives, different knowledge and different ways to solve many existing and emerging business problems.

6 Divergent thinking typically occurs in a spontaneous, free-flowing manner, such that many ideas are generated in an emergent cognitive fashion.

7 It’s best to bring a group of people together with the cognitive difference such as different backgrounds, capabilities, strengths etc., together in order to encourage divergent thinking because the team needs to go divergent to explore the space.

8 Creativity needs a balance of divergent and convergent thinking, the latter isn't valued enough.

9 Innovation, to a certain degree, the process to transform a novel idea to the business value, is a combination of divergent and convergent thinking, the systematic and synthetic processes.

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