Find the Creativity Hiding in Your Office was published on Harvard Business Publishing & written by Gill Corkindale. It’s a fascinating article on encouraging creativity in office & how creativity could “bring fun and lightness to work, together with a different perspective.”
As always, I tried to interpret this article in light of small businesses. Being an entrepreneur myself & having to work on a peer-peer relationship with a lot of other individual entrepreneurs, creativity could mean either success or complete disaster if not done right.
Unlike large corporations that can spend a lot of money training people to be creative & ensuring that the effects are not disastrous, small businesses & individual entrepreneurs do not have that luxury of a safety net.
So more than expressing creativity the difficulty lies in implementing something creative. However, the article highlights two of the most significant industries that are driven by individual creative entrepreneurs most of the time: The advertising industry & publishing.
Both the industries have creative individuals who have been successful individually as well as in teams. One of the points that came out strong from Gill’s article is socializing with a wide section of people & keeping a certain sense of rigor & discipline towards work.
We have seen bloggers succeed by effectively networking with other bloggers making 6 figure earning . The fact that the social networks like LinkedIn & Facebook are becoming so popular & Twitter shot into fame is a proof that successful people are more interested in networking. Twitter has been used frequently to publish thoughts & ideas in simple 140 letters to a large group of similar minded Tweet followers .
Networking also allows individual internet entrepreneurs, especially people starting off in the self-publishing business not only to listen to great ideas but also to validate their creative ideas with the experienced bloggers . The point is, for small business it is very important to have their creative ideas validated to prevent loss or something equally disastrous.
In the world of blogging & internet publishing, ideas & creative thoughts spread like lightening. Confidentiality & secrecy are subjects very difficult to implement, unless you are working alone in a dungeon. However, successful people all understand the value of networking & the need to respect other’s ideas. But nonetheless, it is wise to express the thought & leave the implementation part to the individual’s judgment.
Filed under: Home Business, Publishing, Writing | Tagged: Creativity, Internet Business, Publishing, Social Media
