Creative Thinking (refreshed)

We survived pandemic, we must look beyond the tragedy of it all and find the silver linings. People are looking deeper to identify ways to improve their lives, their relationships and themselves. Self-improvement is on the rise because: 1) we spent less time running doing frivolous activities and more time reflecting and engaging in introspective meditation; and, 2) we reconnected and spent far more time around the people we love, which reveals a lot about how we REALLY feel about our relationships and how we handle them. But what about business?

Same applies. We are looking more deeply at how we communicate and relate to each other from a business perspective and from a human relations perspective. Many of us still have the opportunity to do it through a screen which in a weird way makes us look more directly into the eyes of our counterparts. We have to listen more intently because it doesn’t work when we try to speak over each other on a video call.

We work with people who are struggling, and we may not even know it. Current affairs are highlighting some ugly truths about our society. We are once again looking hatred and injustice square in the face whether we want to or not. We work with people we can talk with and learn first-hand about a perspective that differs from our own. We have the opportunity to develop alliances we never imagined before, and we can expand our relationships beyond our ‘bubbles’.

How now do we make lemonade out of lemons? Every business has a product or service. What products and/or services do you currently offer that can help us through this time of great struggle and opportunity? What products and/or services do you offer that give you a platform to weave in healthy experiences that can open communication and build relationships? What products and/or services do you offer that encourage people to network with faces that don’t look like their own?

A big part of our problem are those BUBBLES. Those bubbles led us to where we are today. The ability some of us have to just forget about, or ignore, things we’re unfamiliar with, things outside of our bubble, and that includes people. Those bubbles give some of us the courage and freedom to say "to hell with the rest of you, this is what works best for me..." We all have wants and needs but does it have to come at the expense of others? I saw something recently that said "Poverty is not a problem because we can't feed the poor. Poverty is a problem because we can't satisfy the rich."

I bow to the only true King - God Almighty. He is in control, He will handle injustice, evil and arrogance in ways we've not seeing during recent generations, but it's coming. When it does, I want to be on the right side of these evil times... as a person, as a leader, as a human being created by God.

Let’s use our leadership to open opportunities to build bridges that start within and expand outside of the office, let’s think creatively, use our gifts, and change this desperate, broken world.