🎧 Episode 082 The Complexity & Chaos of Creativity | Human Current

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1. Bookmarked Creative Clarity by Jon Kolko (Brown Bear LLC)

   This book is built on a simple premise: Most companies don’t know what creativity really is, so they can’t benefit from it. They lack creative clarity. 
   Creative clarity requires you to do four things:
   1. Choreograph a creative strategy, describing a clear future even among the blurry business landscape.
   2. Grow teams that include those creative, unpredictable outcasts;  give them the space to produce amazing work; and build a unique form of trust in your company culture.
   3. Institutionalize an iterative process of critique, conflict, and ideation.
   4. Embrace chaos but manage creative spin and stagnation. 
   This book is primarily for people in charge of driving strategic change through an organization. If you are a line manager responsible for exploring a horizon of opportunity, the book will help you establish a culture of creative product development in which your teams can predictably deliver creative results. You’ll learn methods to drive trust among your team members to enable you to critique and improve their work. And as an organizational leader, you’ll complement your traditional business strategies with the new language and understanding you need to implement creativity in a strategic manner across your company.
   In a creative environment, chaos is the backdrop for hidden wonderment and success. In this book, you’ll gain clarity in the face of that chaos, so you can build great products, great teams, and a high-performing creative organization.  

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2. Thanks for sharing!

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3. Replied to The Vulnerability of Learning by Cathie LeBlanc (Desert of My Real Life)

   When I received Chris’s comment, my first response was that I should delete my post or at least the incorrect part of it. It’s embarrassing to have your incorrect understandings available for public view. But I decided to leave the post as is but put in a disclaimer so that others would not be misled by my misunderstandings.
   This experience reminded me that learning makes us vulnerable. Admitting that you don’t know something is hard and being corrected is even harder. Chris was incredibly gentle in his correction. It makes me think about how I respond to my students’ work. Am I as gentle with their work as Chris was to mine? Could I be more gentle? How often have I graded my students’ work and only focused on what they did wrong? Or forgotten that feeling of vulnerability when you don’t know something, when you put your work out for others to judge? This experience has also reminded me that it’s important that we as teachers regularly put ourselves into situations in which we authentically grapple with not knowing something. We should regularly share our less than fully formed understandings with others for feedback. It helps us remember that even confident learners can struggle with being vulnerable. And we need to keep in mind that many of our students are not confident learners.  ❧

   I’m reminded here of the broad idea that many bloggers write about sooner or later of their website being a “thought space” or place to contemplate out in the open. More often than not, even if they don’t have an audience to interact with, their writings become a way of thinking out loud, clarifying things for themselves, self-evolving, or putting themselves out there for potential public reactions (good, bad, or indifferent).
   While writing things out loud to no audience can be helpful and useful on an individual level, it’s often even more helpful to have some sort of productive and constructive feedback. While a handful of likes or positive seeming responses can be useful, I always prefer the ones that make me think more broadly, deeply, or force me to consider other pieces I hadn’t envisioned before. To me this is the real value of these open and often very public thought spaces.
   For those interested in the general idea, I’ve been bookmarking/tagging things around the idea of thought spaces I’ve read on my own website. Hopefully this collection helps others better understand the spectrum of these ideas for themselves.
   With respect to the vulnerability piece, I’m reminded of an episode of The Human Current I listened to a few weeks back. There was an excellent section that touched on building up trust with students or even a class when it comes to providing feedback and criticism. Having a bank of trust makes it easier to give feedback as well as to receive it. Here’s a link to the audio portion and a copy of the relevant text.

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