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1 " Improvisation is your ability to be present in the now and to responsive with those around you. "
― , The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work
2 " Creativity requires critical thinking and complex problem solving-so we essentially love creativity leading the pack in important job skills for the future of work. "
3 " I define creativity as our ability to toggle between wonder and rigor to solve problems and produce novel value. "
4 " Perhaps creativity feels so inaccessible because it can be such an ambiguous process. It is not familar. It is complex. "
5 " A creativity leap entails our seeing and listening with wonder and rigor in order to sort through the ambiguity and uncertainty of a work process. "
6 " People threw around the word innovation all the time; sometimes we end up talking around each other without getting to the real definition. What do we mean by innovation? Innovation is invention converted into financial, social, and cultural value. Furthermore, the engine for innovation is creativity. That means that we truly want to innovate, then we must design systems, processes, and experiences in our work environments that allow us to be creative and catalyze invention. "
7 " If all we are doing is setting aside new departments or spaces that we designate as the space in which to innovate, then it is as if we are saying there is a separate true and place to be productive. And that is just not so. "
8 " Taking the leap to build an organization-wide creative capacity is the single best way to continually innovate. "
9 " When you are trying to break out of the mold, you must be audacious to make that creativity leap into new territory. "
10 " You can fall backward. Leaping requires exorbitant amounts of energy and trust in the unknown-and it always propels us into new territory. "
11 " Like a physical leap, a creativity leap is essential for crossing boundaries; it is alos an active, dynamic process that honors intuition. "
12 " Creativity leaps are needed to bridge the gap between the churn of work and the highly sought-after prize called innovation. "
13 " Complication is change that is difficult to control, yet ultimately that control is within our reach. "
14 " Anyone can be creative, and anyone can become more creative. "
15 " As you will see in this book, truly innovative people in any field-lawyers, plumbers, accountants, designers-regularly practice honing their creative competency. They apply a combination of the 3 1s - inquiry improvisation, and intuiton to the ways they think through problems and work with others to continually increase their creative competency. "
16 " Inquiry is the root of wisdom and the precussor of empathy. "
17 " Improvising is about building on ideas with minimal constraints. "
18 " There lies in all of us a visceral internal wisdom that allows for unconscious pattern recognition and insights for decision-making. "
19 " A creativity quotient is not fixed. It is dynamic and increases as you practice building it and exercising it. "
20 " As you will learn in this book, rigor cannot be sustained without wonder; and without both capacities, and without both capacities, creativity-and innovation-will suffer. "