Creativity requires openness and growth mind to new experiences and explore new possibilities.
~ Pearl Zhu
Vision is not fiction, fiction could be a pure imagination, vision is to zoom into the future as if it were closer.
Divergent thinking is that one starts thinking from one point and expands from there to generate more ideas.
Innovators with global thinking find more viewing spots that the rest; therefore, they can solve problems in unconventional ways.
Insight is the deep intuitive understanding of things, and it often breaks through the conventional wisdom.
Intuition is often conceived as a kind of inner perception, sometimes regarded as lucidity or understanding.
Subconsciousness is quick and efficient and sometimes can spur creativity.
Innovations succeed when failure is seen as a learning step to great success.
Being confident means you know who you are, your strength and your limitation.
A curious mind enjoys inquiring, experimenting and discovering.
None of us will ever know enough, and that is why humility is a critical component of innovativeness.
Be courageous to listen to what you don’t want to hear and have the guts to be innovative.
Creativity is a passion for some who are inquisitive and want to explore new possibilities.
A learning mind has more dots to connect for sparking innovation.
Innovators are pioneers, great problem-solvers; and creators of a better context.
Creativity is a higher level of thinking because it often imposes a higher cognitive load as you think “harder” via different thought processes.
Creative people are optimistic realists to discover versatility.
Creativity in and of itself is a type of energy vibration.
The “Boxes” are the walls in your mind.
The narrowness of mind is the biggest handicap for innovation.
Being authentic means to be who you are, discover your strength and uniqueness, be yourself, even if you are not perfect, and nobody is.
A high-performing digital mind can think logically, but outside of the box as well.
Strategic Thinking = Systems Thinking + Creativity + Vision
To be creative you must set aside both certainty and doubt.
Out of Box” is a metaphor that means to think differently, unconventionally, or from a new perspective.
An innovative mind allows “the creative flow” to open up for information abundance.
An effective Board can connect all the right dots well.
Creativity is the ability to create novel value, creative mind is defined as the originator.
All humans are born with raw creativity ability, but not all creativities are created equal.
Creativity needs a problem, and the creative person needs a purpose.
Creativity is infused with an inner cohesion and comes from a vision of uniqueness.
Creativity muscle needs to be strengthened, and creativity excellence needs to be cultivated.
Creativity adds signature or aesthetic that elevates passion to purpose and fancy to enchantment.
Creativity needs encouragement as food, and conflict to spark it.
Heterogeneous BoDs with independent thinking enforce governance, and diversity strengthens creativity.
It seems to be most leaders have more conventional wisdom, but creative leaders have better common sense.
Creative leadership can be described as “adaptability meets agility,” and “innovation meets principles.
Decisions always refer to the future.
Future is the most difficult problem of our era.
An adaptive mind has better learning capability.
