Innercreativeinsight

Understand each other empathetically, develop creative intelligence, and take the journey of human evolution with the purpose to make collective progress.

Today’s digital business environment is dynamic, complex, and uncertain. There are always different complexities at a different time or dimension; and there are diversity of thoughts and variety of cultures. 

At present, we cannot separate creativity, logic and intelligence if we want to stay competitive, connect wider dots based on interdisciplinary knowledge and develop creative intelligence dedicatedly.

Creativity is infused with an inner cohesion, hidden logic, emotional wholeness and comes from a unique vision and continuous practices: The essential to questioning stimulates the creative side of our brains in order to find answers. Creatives always ask open questions which lead to discovering situations others do not see at first. To be creative, you need to re-frame the new box thinking, embrace the unknown. Second, you need to challenge the knowledge. At the heart of both system and process distinctions is people being empowered to grow in creative intelligence throughout their lives.

In practice, creativity involves the two-step scenario: the spark of inspiration which plants a new concept, and then, the building of a structure of associations and relationships between that "seed" concept. Creative attitude and aptitude are important because innovators are truth-seeking, willing to embrace diverse viewpoints, change their views and are accountable for their actions. Further, they are robust and judicious in pushing down barriers to achieve the best possible effects.

Creativity is an outcome of a deep understanding of the patterns based on systems thinking: Systems thinking allows us to go beyond the obvious, understand the interconnectivity between parts and the whole. Keep fresh eyes, with the beginner's mind, then ask what additional connections might exist. Then, try to do the very things you've been observing because it will bring much more insights when you try to fiddle with it, and even come up with more fresh ideas.

Observe, and think deeper. Systems Thinker will do so with his/her eyes open to broaden their perspectives and deepen their thoughts. Systems Thinking helps to discover the connectivity and common ground from the difference and dig into the paradoxical intelligence between seemingly two separate views. And therefore, it advocates inclusiveness and embraces diverse PoVs to generate fresh ideas and spur innovation in a structural way.

Creative teams become experimental breakthroughs that eventually produce radical impacts on dynamic performance engines: Uncertainty per se is not a problem, it poses a risk for those who have a fixed mindset and creates opportunities for those with a growth mindset. You need to not only assimilate existing knowledge, more importantly, but you also have to keep updating knowledge, transform knowledge into fresh insight for spotting growth opportunities and catalyze innovation.

Evolutionary innovations can be either incremental or spiral. The most important element is the attitude to increase the chance of generating creative ideas, tolerate risks and be confident to move the ideas forward. Incremental innovation is triggered and limited by the past. On the other hand, breakthrough innovation is in the future with no necessary continuity with the past. Generally speaking, an organization with lightweight processes which allows creativity and innovation to flow, get protected, channeled and nurtured will succeed more often than an organization that does not have such a process.

The world is a melting pot of languages, religions, races, genders, cultures, working in multicultural and global environments and organizations, digital leaders and professionals need to develop their own language, understand each other empathetically, develop creative intelligence, and take the journey of human evolution with the purpose to make collective progress,

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