One Apple A Day #276
“Chaos feeding creativity and innovation”.
Moms don’t like chaos. Organisations don’t want chaos. I don’t like chaos.
Though, I have a natural tendency to create chaos, in my head and in my spaces.
The reason we prefer order to chaos is understandable.
Chaos makes things unpredictable.
Order gives us the idea that we can control what is going to happen.
And this is what makes chaos incredibly powerful.
Order helps us to see what is probable.
But when there is chaos, our mind can open up to the vastly universe of what is possible.
Order is rational. It is about using our cognitive abilities to give sense to everything. But we are all aware that once we engage our emotions, things get less clear, and chaos breaks in. At that moment, the only thing we can do is to surrender to the unknown and connect with our intuition.
Innovation is a sequence of moments of chaos and order, divergence and convergence. Effective innovation needs both. Without chaos, you won’t be able to go beyond the predictable. Without order, you won’t be able to deliver.
I believe every one of us as a natural tendency to chaos or order. Some thrive in chaos, others in order. Organisations must pay attention to this aspect to have the right people at the right moment.