A guide to mindful creativity and innovation

Innovation is knocking on your door. And you embark on an innovation journey. With mixed emotions of excitement and concern, Your drama begins.

Innovations are dramatic. Their production is integrative and co-creative - innovations require many stakeholders and efforts to work together to deliver the expected impact. Innovations play a critical in our growth and prosperity - without innovations, we sing into entropy. And innovations have multiple appearances, forms, and types - which mean they are not as straightforward as we assume and require more than talents or money to realize.

If you've experienced the innovation journey, you know it's a dramatic event. If you haven't yet experienced the innovation journey, you will soon experience the innovators' drama. And if you ignore it, your drama is going to be more demanding.

Dramas are experienced in two ways:

On the surface, dramas are overwhelming situations that have profound implications

Beneath the surface, dramas are accumulations of tensions and conflicts that threaten to blow up and surface sooner or later.

Dramatic events deviate us from an anticipated scenario to unexpected stories. Full of obstacles, tensions, and conflicts, dramas reveal our characters, present our real skills to the world, and determine our faith and destiny.

Dramas are not necessarily bad. Dramas increase our sensitivity, inform us about things we don't know and guide our discoveries.

But beyond a certain threshold, dramas become unproductive. When dramas increase and complicate, they stop being exciting and exhilarating, and They become frustrating confusing and conforming.

Since dramas appear in so many different areas, and because each one of the stakeholders in your play has their own unique triggers for drama, dramas are an excellent indicator of critical issues that need attention.

But at the same time, the cost of dramas makes them hard to approach and too intimidating to utilize.

The cost of drama is not only operational; it's emotional as well. Dramas pack everything we are, including what we are not, and bind it to everything we produce, including failures.

Dramas are way more than a theoretical indicator of critical issues. It's a social phenomenon that acts as a built-in accountability instrument - Which may explain our refrains from addressing it even more.

Dramas challenge the conscious mind by revealing lacunas and sedate the non-critical mind by projecting false attributions.

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