High-Flying or Nose to the Ground: A Team Needs Both
Admit it. Opposites attract. In romance. Interior design. In the workplace? Yes, says a new study. " As an increasingly popular approach to business innovation, the crux of the approach embraces both creativity and analytical thinking to solve problems; two sides of the coin, both are essential to the design thinking process," newswise.com reports. Or, in other words, most of us empathize with those who see the world through what Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck calls a “fixed mindset” — many of whom may be corporate or bureaucratic managers — and vice versa. The fixed mindsetter (whom Dweck calls “George”) usually digs deeply into a specialty and masters the intricacies of it, while more creative types, who usually enjoy what Dweck calls a “growth mindset,” see life as a journey of discovery and, therefore, have developed a more diverse repertoire. Her words. But I get it. There are those of us who see everything in black and ...