It is important to scrutinize all crucial factors from mindset to behavior; develop a series of gap-minding practices to make collective progress.
Outdated thoughts, knowledge, and capability gaps are the reality. If many managers or professionals today still apply silo mindsets, old knowledge or practices to understand people or the global world, that perhaps generates a multitude of gaps, blocking the way of building an advanced human society.
Perception gaps: Perception is what our mind interprets about what we observe and experience the world. Often, we blend different types of thinking processes to see things differently. And there is a discrepancy between subjective perception and actual reality. Perception gaps caused by pre-conceptual judgment, unconscious biases or causal assumptions, deepens miscommunication or misunderstanding.
Global workforce today is multigenerational, multicultural, so to close the perception gap, it’s important to transform mindset from negative to positive; from silo to holistic, from linear to multidimensional. When People remove negative beliefs and fears from themselves, they build abilities to see beyond the chaos created by negative traits and being able to bridge perception gaps effectively.
Knowledge gaps: Knowledge is neutral and can be used for good and become beautiful, or it can be used to cause trouble with negative motivation. There is also the danger of super specialization as it would create silos and enlarge gaps between different knowledge domains. Outdated knowledge is like the glue that makes people get stuck on the past while the rest of the world is moving forward.
Nowadays, to bridge knowledge gaps, people across the globe take advantage of diverse channels to learn and grow, share fresh insight on the collaboration platforms, relearn and update knowledge constantly. From a knowledge management perspective, there is a shift from traditional, often static knowledge management approaches to dynamic solutions enhancing the "flow" of knowledge across domains and closing the gap between knowledge and insight.
Innovation gaps: We are at the intersection of the knowledge economy and creativity economy. In many traditional organizations, the innovation gap is part of reality, due to command-control management styles, overly rigid hierarchy, outdated concepts, traditions, mediocrity, dogmatism, social conformity, etc. Creative thinking is often fresh, unique and original. An open mind with innovativeness is for advancement and bridging the world.
There is no template which you can apply and suddenly have a creative workforce. It must be done skillfully and patiently. Diversification is the hidden dimension of business growth and inclusion enables the organization or society to encourage creativity. Keep in mind, even if you have ample innovative ideas, it doesn’t guarantee innovation success due to the possible execution gap. It’s important to prioritize - select the ideas which can have a better opportunity to implement and maximize business value.
Contemporary societies are complex, without the contextual understanding of the situation, fresh knowledge and next practices to deal with tough problems, the multitude of gaps are enlarged, organizations would become divided, slowing down the speed of changes. It is important to scrutinize all crucial factors from mindset to behavior; develop a series of gap-minding practices to make collective progress.
Perception gaps: Perception is what our mind interprets about what we observe and experience the world. Often, we blend different types of thinking processes to see things differently. And there is a discrepancy between subjective perception and actual reality. Perception gaps caused by pre-conceptual judgment, unconscious biases or causal assumptions, deepens miscommunication or misunderstanding.
Global workforce today is multigenerational, multicultural, so to close the perception gap, it’s important to transform mindset from negative to positive; from silo to holistic, from linear to multidimensional. When People remove negative beliefs and fears from themselves, they build abilities to see beyond the chaos created by negative traits and being able to bridge perception gaps effectively.
Knowledge gaps: Knowledge is neutral and can be used for good and become beautiful, or it can be used to cause trouble with negative motivation. There is also the danger of super specialization as it would create silos and enlarge gaps between different knowledge domains. Outdated knowledge is like the glue that makes people get stuck on the past while the rest of the world is moving forward.
Nowadays, to bridge knowledge gaps, people across the globe take advantage of diverse channels to learn and grow, share fresh insight on the collaboration platforms, relearn and update knowledge constantly. From a knowledge management perspective, there is a shift from traditional, often static knowledge management approaches to dynamic solutions enhancing the "flow" of knowledge across domains and closing the gap between knowledge and insight.
There is no template which you can apply and suddenly have a creative workforce. It must be done skillfully and patiently. Diversification is the hidden dimension of business growth and inclusion enables the organization or society to encourage creativity. Keep in mind, even if you have ample innovative ideas, it doesn’t guarantee innovation success due to the possible execution gap. It’s important to prioritize - select the ideas which can have a better opportunity to implement and maximize business value.
Contemporary societies are complex, without the contextual understanding of the situation, fresh knowledge and next practices to deal with tough problems, the multitude of gaps are enlarged, organizations would become divided, slowing down the speed of changes. It is important to scrutinize all crucial factors from mindset to behavior; develop a series of gap-minding practices to make collective progress.
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