MonkeyMagic reported on Ton Zijlstra's and Lilia's Blogwalk (sorry, circumstances lead me that I could not be there); a perception of direction, trust and creativity
Creativity In lots of ways I think Ton makes good sense. Certainly in terms of picking out those diamond signals from the noise. Ton suggests that
"Knowledge workers ... need to be exposed to as much background noise as possible, to open up as much opportunities to respond as possible."
... and it rings true. It certainly seems to be true in the creative sphere. Amateurs, for example, can and do make great leaps of intuition. (Perhaps because their filters are less restrictive, they get more signals?). Equally artists have a long and fruitful history of opening their doors of perception.
I think that the 'exposure to noise' translates back to the multi-community membership properties that creative people and innovators have; they tend to have access to many networks and know how to translate noise to signals, depending on the direction and purpose of the network. Some other starting point was on the CoP theme on KB last year (with contributions from Dr. Patricia Wolf).
Social Network Analysis (see here for more information on that) is a must when it comes to supporting the conversation with revolutionist. In the article above there are many references to that, but Rob Cross has a nice sample for this application as well (pointer by Patti).
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