I recently wrote (a rather well received
post if I must say…) around Curiosity, and had
several emails regard culture and support of curiosity. To be more specific:
·
How does my
organization get to this point? Intentionally and over time, it requires strong leadership.This
is not a culture that can be created over night, it will require systems and
processes to mitigate the biases and create the intended outcome.
·
Is this a culture
issue or something that is intrinsic to an individual? For the company it is culture development, for the single
employee it is individual development. By that I mean, some people naturally
gravitate towards learning, and some do not, but even in a person who naturally
possess that quality, a culture in an organization can really stifle that curiosity.
·
How do you take action
on this concept? Through leadership and
individual behaviors and actions that create a culture of curiosity.
·
Is failure apart of
curiosity? Yes! How do we learn
the most through actual action and the “aha” moments, better known as insight.
So I thought about it for several weeks and decided to write my
response to a couple of the questions, that would not require a full
dissertation. (I could, but Duvet to Desk is a my part time job for right now).
PQ
+ CQ > IQ
Passion
Quotient (PQ) + Curiosity Quotient (CQ) is greater than (>) Intelligence
Quotient (IQ)

New ideas are accepted
Inclusive behaviors and
discomfort are the new standard of team
Learning comes from
experience versus formal training
And, a clear
understanding that although something didn’t turn out as 100% planned,
there is and was something to gain from the circumstance, and planned
for in the future
Unfortunately what we have the tendency to do is to stifle our
curiosity and innovating thinking, very unintentionally, via the unconscious
bias we exhibit, lack of people leadership, unintentional cultures, and
bureaucratic nature of business. To get to a place of passion and curiosity, we
have to accept that the only constant in our uncertain world is change. It is
ok to fail, but you should be failing forward and failing fast.
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