Comments on: The Box: Why Brainstorms Fail http://www.crinid.com/creativity/the-box-why-brainstorms-fail Let Creativity Flow Wed, 04 Aug 2010 20:32:10 +0200 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Peter Jones http://www.crinid.com/creativity/the-box-why-brainstorms-fail/comment-page-1#comment-1051 Peter Jones Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:31:03 +0000 http://www.crinid.com/?p=1105#comment-1051 Great! As Arne said "I'll be back!" I really like your posts - right up my street. Can we please swap blog links? I've been blogging about this for some four years (see tags). My 'box' is a conceptual framework that encourages review of what's in the box and what's out of the box. This is achieved with four foundational knowledge domains, which become '5' should we include a spiritual dimension. There can be just 1, 2, 3 domains (boxes) depending on the content and issue at hand. A strength of this approach is it acts as a cognitive scratchpad that can be shared - whether expert or (life-long) learner (which of course we all are). Meaning is multidimensional at least > 2-D (boxes are 3-D even 4-D....) so creativity is about crossing disciplinary and subject boundaries rather than purely thinking in or out of boxes. It is what people do with the boxes that also counts. Disregarding the established, throwing them out, recycling the tired boxes, kicking the sides out of the box - conjoining some, or building anew being prepared to try. Peter Jones http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/ Hodges' Health Career - Care Domains - Model http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/ h2cm: help2Cmore - help-2-listen - help-2-care http://twitter.com/h2cm Great! As Arne said “I’ll be back!” I really like your posts – right up my street. Can we please swap blog links? I’ve been blogging about this for some four years (see tags). My ‘box’ is a conceptual framework that encourages review of what’s in the box and what’s out of the box. This is achieved with four foundational knowledge domains, which become ’5′ should we include a spiritual dimension. There can be just 1, 2, 3 domains (boxes) depending on the content and issue at hand. A strength of this approach is it acts as a cognitive scratchpad that can be shared – whether expert or (life-long) learner (which of course we all are). Meaning is multidimensional at least > 2-D (boxes are 3-D even 4-D….) so creativity is about crossing disciplinary and subject boundaries rather than purely thinking in or out of boxes. It is what people do with the boxes that also counts. Disregarding the established, throwing them out, recycling the tired boxes, kicking the sides out of the box – conjoining some, or building anew being prepared to try.

Peter Jones
http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/
Hodges’ Health Career – Care Domains – Model
http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/
h2cm: help2Cmore – help-2-listen – help-2-care
http://twitter.com/h2cm

]]> By: Tammy http://www.crinid.com/creativity/the-box-why-brainstorms-fail/comment-page-1#comment-1049 Tammy Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:42:19 +0000 http://www.crinid.com/?p=1105#comment-1049 Interesting that the buzz words for creativity, "out of the box" hamper creativity! We met annually at work for a super-productive brainstorming session. Years later, a new manager joined the team and started the meeting by asking us to think out of the box, to really push the envelope, no standard ideas wanted, etc. The results didn't have the same creative energy... Interesting that the buzz words for creativity, “out of the box” hamper creativity! We met annually at work for a super-productive brainstorming session. Years later, a new manager joined the team and started the meeting by asking us to think out of the box, to really push the envelope, no standard ideas wanted, etc. The results didn’t have the same creative energy…

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