My dad was a professor that dedicated his career to researching creativity and giftedness. Although I would like to think that I was the inspiration for his literature on ‘creativity and the highly gifted child’, his interest started before
My dad was a professor that dedicated his career to researching creativity and giftedness. Although I would like to think that I was the inspiration for his literature on ‘creativity and the highly gifted child’, his interest started before they had me and his early works date back to the 1970s. But what do we really know today and how is it relevant to organisations?
From chaos to order to creativity
‘Equilibrium’, ‘balance’, and ‘stability’. These are all words we associate with health, calmness and order. We want things to be ‘equal’ and return to ‘homeostasis’. On the other hand, ‘disequilibrium, ‘lack of control’ and ‘instability’ all convey associations of disease and disorder. In fact, for a very long time, it was a popular belief among scientists that, in any system closed off from its environment and left to its own devices, the disorder and chaos in the system will always increase. Things have a tendency for disorder because there are more ways in which things can be in a state of disorder than in a state of order.