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Organisation Design | Knowledge Manager | Strategy

"Jefe, would you say I have a plethora of pinatas?" El Guapo. Likewise, creative thinking has a plethora of techniques, tools, and methods. However, like most cognitive activities creative thinking benefits from reflection.  We need to build in time to reflect on our creative project. For example: What's working well...? What's inhibiting the...? What can I do differently...?  Reflection, amongst other things, can give us enough distance to see if there are new perspectives we may have missed.  The challenge is time! Generally, our days can be consumed with meetings, a slightly too long task list, competing project priorities, etc. But - there's always a 'but'! - if organizations actually want to cultivate a creative capability then it's essential to build space and time for individuals and teams to reflect on their work. How you do that, is something that each organization and team needs to explore and work out for themselves. #learning #creativity 

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Laurel Sutton

Principal at Creative Cognicion; collaborative partner at Complexability

6y

Reflection is an important part of learning and developing ideas. As an extension to the reflection, the emergent ideas need to be tested with others even if it is through an ideas conversation with people who both think like us and who think differently . So the creative process might be reflecting, experimentation, modification, reflection, experimentation and so on in an evolving circle to formulate the idea and into action , then further reflection process. The reflection process helps with shifting and shaping an idea.

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