10 Core Assumptions for the Creative Workplace

1. Everyone is creative and simply need the right conditions to access that infinite well

2.  Focused creativity is not separate from the bottom line, but a major factor in contributing to it.

3. Next-level innovative solutions require new levels of being as well as thinking.

4. Comfort with change increases with consistent practice entering unfamiliar territory in non-habitual ways.

5. People can transform their experience of uncertainty from one of fear to one of discovery.

6. Creative thinking combined with purpose skyrockets motivation and breeds more relevant and successful contribution.

7. With safe co-creating, a group collective intelligence takes over and the “whole exceeds the sum of its parts.”

8.  Every challenge or vision contains its "solution" - it just needs fresh ways of engaging the situation

9.  Mistakes are invitations to learn, grow and evolve

10. Creativity peaks at inter-connections and intersections:
        •  thinking and being
        •  logic and intuition
        •  structure and flow
        •  left brain and right brain
        •  action and reflection
        •  generating and incubating
        •  masculine practices and feminine practices
        •  autonomy and community

Michelle James 2010

Comments

[Robyn McMaster]

Added to what you say, my creativity begins with inspiration that germinates on walks and in the shower and the most unlikely places. ;-)

[Michelle]

Yes, awesome Robin! Thanks so much for your comment! Incubating and germinating play a significant role :-)