Creating Works specializes in the individual skills, relationships and systems needed in a creatorship culture, a way of working and collaborating in organizations and communities that builds on the scientific learning of the past 50-75 years.
My shift in focus from leadership to creatorship has been a deliberate one. Historically, I focused on leaders. Influence a leader and you’ve influenced the organization. Develop the leadership and things will change for the better.…or so I thought. Unfortunately this approach contributes to the belief that only leaders make things happen. It feeds the illusion that someone up there can, and should, save us. To address this concern, we’ve tried to expand the meaning of leader to denote, “we are all leaders,” but leadership is a hierarchical model. A leader needs followers who by definition are dependent on the leader, largely invisible and considered less important.
Today’s problems cannot be solved at the same level of thinking that generated them.
Science has expanded our understanding of the world far beyond Isaac Newton’s physics which saw the world as mechanistic and humans as independent, objective observers. This new knowledge of the world involves understanding systems, the role of energy, and the extent of our interconnectedness. We are learning how, at the level of thought and emotion, we create results that affect the world around us. We are learning that at the most fundamental level, everything exists in relationship to something else. We are continually learning more about the complex systems we live in.
To use this information effectively, we need a new model for how we work together, one that acknowledges we are all fundamentally creators. We need to learn more about the creative process individually, within our organizations and in our communities.
This is the focus of my consulting work.
