Decentralize your Organization’s Creativity

In his book, Elastic, physicist Leonard Mlodinow teaches us about “elastic” thinking – moving beyond conventional ideas, breaking with or creating new rules and habits.

This book is fascinating and provocative. In an organization, elastic thinking typically comes from the bottom up. An individual is limited to their capabilities and bandwidth, but groups of individuals can exceed expectations, produce breakthroughs, and perform remarkable feats. Corporations as a whole need to embrace the bottom-up potential of elastic thinking – they need to cultivate all the talent of their teams: “they have to give the freedom to the people below and the respect to listen to them and let them interact with each other and come up with ideas, not just have everything dictated from the CEO down.”

“The more hierarchical a company is, the more it’s an innovation-killer.”

For more, https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/flexible-thinking