Unleashing Creativity

How does it affect a team? If the management or manager is not creative and if he never allows his sub-ordinates to be creative. But rather makes only his work to be done.

The fact that why we need creativity is to see in different perceptive that leads to optimum utilization of time, energy and resources. We know that all the process is not fully utilized or efficient, there is always a possibility of improvement. The fuel efficient cars will not give the complete mileage, but rather uses some of its power for other purposes that reduces the efficiency. Ex: to start up the engine, to power up the front light/head light.

If a process can be improved but some means and the means to achieve it is through the innovative ideas created out the minds of the people who work and if they were not been given enough time to think and act then such creative ideas will become obsolete and it will not be used at all. Say, if a process time for a particular job takes 10 hours and if $10 is paid for an hour, we have come with an innovative idea where the process can be done in 8 hours, then the innovation has resulted in saving $20, but since the people was working continuously and never got opportunity to innovate or be creative at work will lead to the loss of $20.

Why do we need creativity at work place?

Different perceptive…  

As said earlier, there are times in process which results in wastage or unproductive which could have been eliminated by proper procedure or being creative. The watermelon, the fish tank, the farming etc.. Everything was made creative in Japan, which resulted in higher productivity.

What about the creativity perspective? How do we consider the loss, failure etc.

When asked about the failure to Thomas Alva Edison, he said, “I do not consider this as failure, but a learning process” – “I do not see these as a method to fail, but how not to make a bulb”

The Bible talks about such instances when we have to consider the difficulties, hardships, etc..

James 1:2-4New American Standard Bible (NASB)

2 Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various [a]trials,3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces [b]endurance. 4 And let [c]endurance have its perfect [d]result, so that you may be [e]perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Romans 8:18New International Version (NIV)

Present Suffering and Future Glory

18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.