The profile of innovator that is most common is the talented people with an innate curiosity to improve, breakthrough unconventional wisdom to innovate.
Searching for flaws in decisions: There’s knowing unknown, there’s unknowing unknown, everyone perhaps has some blind spots in blocking the way to decision effectiveness. In the human context, information + intuition drives awareness. Unconventional understanding and true wisdom lead to putting more thoughts into things and searching for flaws in decisions and that widens the possibility of coming up with alternative solutions. People with “unconventional mindset” and learning agility have the willingness and ability to seek out updated knowledge, gain an in-depth understanding, and address their ignorance and the assumptions they make to minimize it. It's crucial to leverage real critical thinking which often has creativity embedded in it, for identifying blind spots in decision making and gain an in-depth understanding of the real issue in a proactive way.
Collectively, “Groupthinking” implies potential blind spots in decision making due to conventional thinking and homogeneous team setting. To encourage “unconventional understanding” and stimulate creativity, heterogeneous group setting helps to balance out the biases that from which we all suffer, or fill out the blind spots each one of us perhaps has some, generate more of everything (viable alternatives, criteria, etc.), all of which are shown to improve the quality of decision-making.
Changing the frame of reference to shape unconventional understanding: To spark creativity and gain “unconventional understanding” of things, put aside all those trained thoughts, logic, systems and boxes, fill in the updated knowledge, nonlinear digital thinking, always be open-minded to the different points of views, be resourceful and insightful. Also, be able to leverage conscious and subconscious thoughts to create a new state of awareness where the self is nourished by the experience of positivity to nurture creativity. To be truly creative means challenging norms beliefs or best practice by asking: “What’s the connection between the theories I learn and what happens in the real world? Does the knowledge I learn have already outdated as the world has changed with much faster speed?” Keep thinking outside the conventional box, practicing creative thinking, critical thinking, and adding value differently from the status quo.
In fact, being innovative is all about disrupting outdated thinking and old ways to do things, such as silo, status quo, dysfunction, complication, rigidity, or bureaucracy, etc. Rapid change and fierce competition demand everyone to continuously maintain and grow their expertise/skills, develop multidimensional thinking skills and cultivate creativity. A unique set of digital thinking helps us think broader, deeper, use a longer-term frame, and take a holistic lens. To break through outdated concepts or “we always do things like that” mentality, learning, critical thinking, creativity, and improvement will come from all of the workforce and not just the chosen few who believe they have all the answers. When you learn to create an inner space of calmness in the storming mind of thoughts, emotions, sensations, and imagination, insights can be perceived, unconventional wisdom can be created, and also trigger a sense of confidence, confirmation, validation, or verification. You discover the unique path others never take before.
Breakthrough unconventional wisdom to innovate, and come up with different solutions: The traditional type of problem-solving usually cannot look outside the box, but creative problem solving needs to shape a bigger box to think, recognize innovative ideas, fight for resources and political cover, connect ideas and teams together to deliver highly innovative solutions. Psychologically, it combines restless dissatisfaction with the current state coupled with the excitement of leading individuals or teams to find innovative solutions that will produce great results. In fact, being innovative is all about disrupting outdated thinking and old ways to do things, such as silo, status quo, dysfunction, complication, rigidity, or bureaucracy, etc. In fact, being innovative is all about disrupting outdated thinking and old ways to do things, such as silo, status quo, dysfunction, complication, rigidity, or bureaucracy, etc.
In practice, think and act differently to get a different solution which may not be easy to a conventional mind. Thinking creatively about a problem requires being close to the problem. Creative problem solvers see the old problems from every direction and find different solutions. When in-depth thoughts and understanding transcend into wisdom, the good solution to a specific problem can be scaled and applied to other domains. For many old and emergent problems, you have to challenge automatic assumptions that something needs 'fixing,’ seeing things from different angles and shaping unconventional understanding of the issues to improve the opportunity for coming up with innovative solutions.
Virtually all real economic growth or societal progress is driven by some sorts of creative disruptions and unconventional understanding of things and the world. Innovators obviously think differently - problem-solving is part of their DNA. The profile of innovator that is most common is the talented people with an innate curiosity to improve, breakthrough unconventional wisdom to innovate, take the risk of experimenting with new ways to do things, and discover the unique path others never took before to reach the destination.
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