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The Monthly “100 Creativity Ingredients” Book Tuning: Unleash People’s Creative Potential Sep. 2019

 To build a highly innovative organization, it’s important to make sure that your company has a steady flow of fresh ideas floating in the innovation pipeline and create synergy for innovation management.

All humans are born with raw creativity ability. Creativity has many dimensions, with multi-faceted truth and myth, manifold knowledge and multidimensional insight. Creativity is the wings of our mind and the tempo of our heartbeat. Creativity is a constructive disruption, not so bad addiction, and a sensational phenomenon. The purpose of “100 Creativity Ingredients - Everyone’s Playbook to Unlock Creativity “is to classify, scrutinize, articulate, and share insight about one hundred special creativity ingredients, to paint the picture with them, to add colors on them, to embed the music into them, and to make the story via them, in order to unleash our collective creativity potential.

             Unleash People’s Creative Potential 


How to Unlock the People’s Creative Potential In recent years, creativity has become a very highly valued skill, and many think it is the #1 wanted professional capability in the digital era. Creativity is innate with many special ingredients; and creativity can be developed if the conditions are right and there is love, inspiration, encouragement, and permission, Creative people combine existing possibilities to reach more often unexpected solutions. Creativity can be abundant. Creativity is a long-term endeavor. It must be unlocked to maximize its potential.

Ideaphoria: How to Build a Highly Innovative Organization with Constant Creativity Flow  Companies have always had the flow of information, flow of ideas, a flow sufficient for the needs of the company at that time. The point is that, with increasing pace of change, what has happened is that the flow from "before" is perhaps no longer sufficient to address the business challenges of today and future. Ideas are crucial to business innovation, and innovation is critical to the business’s survival and thriving. To build a highly innovative organization, it’s important to make sure that your company has a steady flow of fresh ideas floating in the innovation pipeline and create synergy for innovation management.

How to Build a Creative Workforce and Workplace? People are the most invaluable asset in business, at the age of digital, it is even more true than ever. Talented employees are treated as human capital needs to be well invested to unleash the boundless potential, not just human resources counted as a cost. HR shall also transform itself from an administration function and gatekeeper to change agent, capital investor, and innovator in order to build a creative digital working environment and catalyze the organizational level of digital transformation. However, how do you, as leaders, involve all people in creative thinking and actions? And how can you help improve the harvest of the creative seeds?

Three Practices to Build Creative Workplaces and Workforce People are always the most important business asset and investment, but also one of the weakest links in organizations. The important perspective of digital transformation is to put people at the center of the business, and to both engage employees and delight customers. One of the key determinants of whether an organization can move to new digital structures is the development level of the people, build a creative workplace and innovative workforce.

Enforcing Creativity in the Digital Organization Many forward-looking organizations are shifting from the industrial silo mode to interconnected innovation mode. Innovation is a systematic process to transform novel ideas for achieving its business value. Everyone possesses a certain level of creativity. But collectively, how does creativity manifest itself in the workplace? What's the best work environment for creativity? And how to put people at the center of business? Here is the creativity triangle with three vertices in the digital organization.

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 3 million page views with about #6000th blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The “Digital Master” book series includes 28 books to share insight from the multidimensional digital lens and perceive the multi-faceted impact the digital era upon us is making to the businesses and society. The content richness is not for its own sake, but to convey the vision and share the wisdom. Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking and innovating the new ideas; it’s not just about WHAT to say, but about WHY to say, and HOW to say it. It reflects the color and shade of your thought patterns, and it indicates the peaks and curves of your thinking waves. Unlike pure entertainment, quality and professional content takes time for digesting, contemplation and engaging, and therefore, it takes time to attract the "hungry minds" and the "deep souls." It’s the journey to amplify diverse voices and deepen digital footprints, and it's the way to harness your innovative spirit.
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The Best “Intellectual Curiosity” Quotes of “Digital Master” Aug. 2019

 The clear manifestation of intellectual curiosity is to ask good questions, the open questions, the profound questions and the thought provoking questions.

"Digital Master” is a series of guidebooks (28 + books) to perceive the multi-faceted impact digital is making to the businesses and society, help forward-thinking organizations navigate through the journey in a systematic way, and avoid “rogue digital.” It perceives the emergent trends of digital leadership, provides advice on how to run a digital organization to unleash its full potential and improve agility, maturity, and provide insight about Change Management. It also instructs the digital workforce on how to shape a game-changing digital mindset and build the right set of digital capabilities to compete for the future. Here is a set of “Intellectual Curiosity” quotes in “Digital Master."


1 Discovery starts with an open mind full of intellectual curiosity and fresh eyes having a broader vision.

2 The clear manifestation of intellectual curiosity is to ask good questions, the open questions, the profound questions and the thought provoking questions

3 Children are a good example of having open-mindedness, curiosity, and joy for exploring because the world is so new for them.

4 Without humility, curiosity is feeble and without curiosity, creativity is ineffectual

5 People with intellectual curiosity are more like to ask those open questions such as “What if,” “Why not.” etc.

6 Truly curious people are more interested in what they don't know rather than just providing answers to show what they do know. Intellectual curiosity is one of the key ingredients to spark innovation and catalyze the culture of creativity.

7 Every discovery must be supported by intellectual curiosity with sound rational and logical certainty that can be accepted without any doubt whatsoever.

8 A friendly digital working environment like the melting pot to inspire creativity, encourage free thinking & experimenting, stimulate intellectual curiosity and appreciative inquiries.

9 Life's a journey, we might lose a lot of things on the way, but do not lose the character because it is our personal identity and brand; do not lose intellectual curiosity because it keeps life interesting and meaningful.
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Ideaphoria: How to Build a Highly Innovative Organization with Constant Creativity Flow

 It is important to create conditions so that the ideas can flow and creative potential can manifest.

Companies have always had the flow of information, flow of ideas, a flow sufficient for the needs of the company at that time. The point is that, with increasing pace of change, what has happened is that the flow from "before" is perhaps no longer sufficient to address the business challenges of today and future. Ideas are crucial to business innovation, and innovation is critical to the business’s survival and thriving. To build a highly innovative organization, it’s important to make sure that your company has a steady flow of fresh ideas floating in the innovation pipeline and create synergy for innovation management.

Provoke breakthrough thinking: Creativity is the high level of thinking because it evolves many different thought processes such as dots connection, imagination, intuition, or pattern discovery, etc. It often happens at the intersection of conscious and subconscious thinking. Breakthrough progress often starts at the mindset level, and breakthrough ideas are shaped by breaking down conventional thinking box, broadening thoughts and connecting wider cross-disciplinary dots for coming up with novel ideas to create breakthrough solutions. It takes courage to step out of conventional thinking box and practice creativity. In a business enterprise context, the mantra of "there are no bad ideas" is often used as a catalyst to encourage a flow of ideas. Often, ideas are built on other ideas and that idea combination is a powerful technique, then having a big amount of ideas is a good thing as long as you then try and get the best attributes of the ones you like and combine them into solid ideas which can be implemented and come up with breakthrough innovations.

Harness spontaneity of group interaction: Innovation happens at the intersection of people and organization. Individually, the interaction between what is within us (the self), and how we project to the outside world is the bridge to trigger our creativity. Collectively, to achieve the digital breakthrough, it’s important to build an innovative workforce which continues to depoliticize working culture, dismantle bureaucracy, and harness group interaction for sparking creativity. Breakthrough innovation are often driven by creative people not only far-sighted but also well-determined to make their ideas succeed by challenging the rules of the game, connecting interdisciplinary dots, harnessing heterogeneous group interactions, or accelerating knowledge transfers. With powerful digital technologies and collaboration tools, organizations today can set up the innovation platform for empowering people to contribute and keeping the idea flow by breaking down silos or bottlenecks to enforce cross-boundary communication and collaboration.

Spot innovators: To develop a highly innovative organization and keep the fountain of creativity flow, it’s important to hire, retain, and recognize innovators who can help organizations catalyze the culture of creativity and create an optimal environment for innovation. Innovators present creatively disruptive traits, disrupt old ways, and inspire better ways to do things. Spot innovators based on how they think, their intellectual curiosity, and their ability to connect the dots. Innovators are often visionaries and pathfinders who can come with a foresight to envision a need that others overlook or ignore and a willingness to forge ahead to satisfy their vision. The unique traits of innovators include such as: open-mindedness, cognitive intelligence, learning plasticity, intellectual engagement, pattern discovery, ambiguity tolerance, high adaptability, or emotional intelligence for risk taking, etc. They can help their organization generate and share fresh ideas, explore new opportunities and achieve the impossible.

In an ideal digital workforce, empowerment is the mantra for developing the digital ready workforce and shaping a culture of innovation. It is important to create conditions so that the ideas can flow and creative potential can manifest. Ideologically, the highly effective and dynamic digital organizations have a multitude of positive characteristics such as the startup’s business culture, the institute’s learning attitude and agility, with the abundance of knowledge and expertise. Only in an open trusting space, creativity can be nurtured and innovation can be catalyzed effortlessly.
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The Monthly “100 Creativity Ingredients” Book Tuning: Design Thinking & Creativity Aug. 2019

To digitize businesses and unlock business potential, it's important to leverage design thinking for improving business maturity from functioning to firm to delight.

All humans are born with raw creativity ability. Creativity has many dimensions, with multi-faceted truth and myth, manifold knowledge and multidimensional insight. Creativity is the wings of our mind and the tempo of our heartbeat. Creativity is a constructive disruption, not so bad addiction, and a sensational phenomenon. The purpose of “100 Creativity Ingredients - Everyone’s Playbook to Unlock Creativity “is to classify, scrutinize, articulate, and share insight about one hundred special creativity ingredients, to paint the picture with them, to add colors on them, to embed the music into them, and to make the story via them, in order to unleash our collective creativity potential.     

              Design Thinking, Imagination, Creativity 


Design Thinking and Innovation Digital is the age of options, it provides the opportunity to think of a new way to do things. It forces digital leaders to get really creative on how they could leverage design thinking to architect and implement changes and how they handle the investigation of developing innovative business solutions in a structural way. Design becomes a strategic business driver equal to business and technology. In practice, many legacy businesses come with a legacy mindset, the old way to do things, lack of vision, passion, motivation, and talent to stimulate design thinking and spark innovation. In reality, very few companies can arrive at the top level of design maturity. To digitize businesses and unlock business potential, it's important to leverage design thinking for improving business maturity from functioning to firm to delight.

Design Thinking and Imagination Being able to become innovative to achieve the “art of possible” is being able to apply design thinking to create new things based on the business or customers’ needs. Fundamentally, design is a creative process of turning imagination into reality. There are architecture imagination, practical imagination, as well as aesthetic of imagination, which need to be leveraged in design scenario for creating new products or services to delight customers.

Practice the “Art of Possible” by Leverage Design Thinking Creativity is the most needed skill in the 21st century because digital is the era of innovation. Creativity is both innate and a skill. Developing creativity requires both internal motivation and self-awareness. Being original and being yourself is the first step, breaking down the convention thinking box, and practicing out-of-the-box thinking is one of the mental activities to stimulate creativity as well. Here is the further understanding about the multifaceted creativity.

Design-Driven Innovation Nowadays, innovation has many flavors, from open innovation to a systematic approach; from customer-centricity to technology breakthrough. Here comes design-driven innovation.Design thought has stages of maturity: From design-by-default, where design just happens and design is dictated by status quo policies, procedures, tools, and old mindsets, to design –by-practice, where design becomes the key ingredient of innovation strategy, and design-driven innovation has been supported by cohesive business capability, well-tuned business processes and high-skilled talent teams with open mind working at creative business environment.

Shape a Design-driven and People-centric Digital Organization Digital makes a significant impact on every aspect of the business from people, process to technology both horizontally and vertically. In reality, different organizations are at different stages of the business maturity life cycle, strive to move up their maturity from functioning to firm to delight. The digital era upon us is about people. Therefore, organizations need to get deeply immersed in designing, developing and delivering great products or solutions to make their customers smarter, more productive, collaborative, and delightful. Focusing on customers’ need and what the market is moving toward should be a reasonable path to pursue innovation and shape a design-driven and people-centric digital organization.

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 3 million page views with about #5900th blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The “Digital Master” book series includes 28 books to share insight from the multidimensional digital lens and perceive the multi-faceted impact the digital era upon us is making to the businesses and society. The content richness is not for its own sake, but to convey the vision and share the wisdom. Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking and innovating the new ideas; it’s not just about WHAT to say, but about WHY to say, and HOW to say it. It reflects the color and shade of your thought patterns, and it indicates the peaks and curves of your thinking waves. Unlike pure entertainment, quality and professional content takes time for digesting, contemplation and engaging, and therefore, it takes time to attract the "hungry minds" and the "deep souls." It’s the journey to amplify diverse voices and deepen digital footprints, and it's the way to harness your innovative spirit.
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Be Alert of the Three Opposites of “Digital Mentality”

 Digital mentalities  in a collective setting can sustain a balance of creativity and process; opportunities and risk; individualism and teamwork, democracy and unification; science and art, intuition and logic; forward-thinking and lesson learned. 

Many organizations are doing digital - applying some fancy gadgets or taking a few business initiatives. But very few are taking a holistic approach to go digital and be digital. The fundamental difference is the digital mind shift. One of the most important perspectives of Change Management is to understand the psychology behind change and how to keep digital fit from the mindset level. This is related to a function of things such as basic mental framework, cognitive intelligence or emotional brilliance. Be alert of the following three opposites of “digital mentality.”

The opposite of critical thinking: Critical thinking is about applying the objective analysis to either making sound judgments or effective decisions. It’s also called structured thinking which implies to frame and solve problems in a structural way. Thus, the opposite of critical thinking includes reflexive thinking, autonomic response, unstructured thinking or simply mindlessness. Critical Thinking means to dispassionately analyze and make the logical reasoning via both induction and deduction, analysis and synthesis. Therefore, the opposite of critical thinking is emotional thinking. Although they can overlap, when you let emotions such as preferences, like, etc, unduly influence the decision-making, and then your emotions perhaps supersede critical thinking. The real critical thinking involves multiple thought processes even having creativity embedded in it. That’s why it can help to dig into the root cause of the problem from unconventional lens and solve it creatively. The opposite of critical thinking could also mean superficiality which means to focus on just symptoms, not root causes; stick to conventional understanding, or close-mindedness. In fact, non-critical thinking is perhaps one of the the biggest root causes of many types of bias. For example, unconscious bias happens when you only “judge a book by its cover” without thinking deeper. “Conformation bias” is a critical impediments to critical thinking. It's the bias that makes us look for people "like us." Without critical thinking, there is no clarity, accuracy, consistency, relevance, sound evidence, or true fairness.

The opposite of strategic thinking: Strategic Thinking is simply about “keeping the end in mind.” It’s the ability to think on a temporal plane; where you are and where you want to be. Therefore, the opposite of strategic thinking is lack of direction, fear of the unknown, status quo, or poor judgment. Strategic thinking is analytical, decision-oriented, and directional; to ponder where you are, where you want to go, link the future with the past and be opportunistic. Thus, the opposite of strategic thinking is ad hoc, unplanned or reactionary, etc. Strategic thinking is simply openness to finding connections between people, ideas, things, etc. While the opposite of strategic thinking is close mindedness, isolation, or lack of insight. Strategic thinking digs through by exploring the “WHY” factor; lack of strategic thinking often means jumping into “how” without clarifying “why” and “what.” Strategic thinking deals with "discovering novel ideas or rewriting the rules of the competitive game." So, lack of strategic thinking means just following the rules even though they are perhaps outdated long time ago or simply keep doing things repetitively without making essential progress.


The opposite of creativity: Conventional thinking often refers to “in-the-box” thinking, which is opposite to the “out-of-the-box” creative thinking. Creative thinking is often fresh, unique and original, and it’s a type of high level thinking, So the opposites of creativity include the outdated concepts, traditions, mediocrity, old habits, dogmatism, social conformity, etc. Creative thinking can be stimulated by looking at things from different angles or connecting unusual dots across domains. Thus, the opposite of creativity means of stereotypical thinking or preconceived ideas about how things should happen, of conventional wisdom which often has a negative connotation about sticking to the old ways of doing things or confines of old traditions. To stimulate creativity, a certain mental, psychological, and conditional chemistry is needed to break-away from the thoughts that others have thought about and explore the art of new possibilities.

Be alert of the opposites of digital mentalities. Transformation requires mind shift. Digital mentalities in a collective setting can sustain a balance of creativity and process; opportunities and risk; individualism and teamwork, democracy and unification; science and art, intuition and logic; forward-thinking and lesson learned. It requires going a step or a few steps further and involves internalization of dynamic thinking and digital conceptual model so that the newly required behaviors don't require the same kind of effort and vigilance, and progressive change can happen seamlessly.
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The Best “Sensation” Quotes of “Digital Master” Aug. 2019

When you become self-aware, when you know the triggers to the emotions, sensation can evoke the vision, feeling, thinking, and emotions.

"Digital Master” is a series of guidebooks (28 + books) to perceive the multi-faceted impact digital is making to the businesses and society, help forward-thinking organizations navigate through the journey in a systematic way, and avoid “rogue digital.” It perceives the emergent trends of digital leadership, provides advice on how to run a digital organization to unleash its full potential and improve agility, maturity, and provide insight about Change Management. It also instructs the digital workforce on how to shape a game-changing digital mindset and build the right set of digital capabilities to compete for the future. Here is a set of “Sensation” quotes in “Digital Master.’

1 The sensation is a physical feeling or perception resulting from something that happens around.

2 Intuition is the perception of inside images, and sensation is the perception of outside images etc.

3 When you become self-aware, when you know the triggers to the emotions, sensation can evoke the vision, feeling, thinking, and emotions.

4 Sensation makes us feel alive; sensation helps us evolve, either to have joy or feel pain.

5 It is very important to experience sensation, but not be overwhelmed, learn how to feel and engage life in a mindful way.

6 Intuition is more yin and sensation is more yang. Intuition is more receptive, global, holistic and sensation is more active, focal, serial.

7 Often we cannot control intuition but we can control sensation. We need to be provoked to make our intuition work and get our sensation meaningful.

8 An open mind leads to push intuition button and touch sensation nerve, stimulates imagination, and sparks creativity.

9 The world is projected by the brain through the collection of sensations and ideas that we are sensitive to and intrigued by.
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