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Image: Laffy4KThere are lots of forces driving an increase in virtual work or telecommuting. One that may escape notice is its potential contribution to creativity!
I taught a creativity class for several years. An exercise I typically began with asked people to reveal their “most creative place,” the place where they most often came up with creative ideas. Exercising, the car, the shower, meditating, in bed and so on would emerge. Typically, near the very end of the exercise, someone would say “work,” and everyone would have a great laugh.
The workplace never came up early – it was near the end if appeared at all. Yet, we all recognize that we are in a “knowledge economy,” where our competitive advantage is based on our intellectual capital, which in turn is heavily based on ability to come up with creative and innovative ideas. If the workplace is the “last” place where people come up with creative ideas, why are we insisting they spend all their time there? Sure, there are creative benefits to group collaboration. So the “ideal” mix of time from a futurist perspective involves alone time at the places where people are most creative (not work) and bringing people to work for the purposes of creative collaboration. changewaves.socialtechnologies.com
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