Reflection

Xinglun Sun
Design Thinking Fall 22
2 min readSep 15, 2022

Collective creativity comes from an ecological community that guarantees the output of talent and creativity. This community consists of two parts, members and leaders.

The composition of members has largely laid the foundation of the community’s culture. The community needs talents of different disciplines and majors, and people who grow up in different learning environments are more likely to have collisions of ideas, giving people a space for adventure between the mixing and mixing of ideas. After laying the foundation of cultural heritage, the community needs to form a harmonious environment for cooperation and competition, which requires mutual trust and respect between talents, loyalty to each other, and mutual attraction.

We must admit that in the so-called “democratic” society, there must be meritocracy, and the absolute freedom of teamwork will counteract the cultivation of collective creativity. The existence of leadership is to seek a balance between “elite politics” and “democratic freedom”. In this ecological environment formed by creativity, it provides a space for adjustment and coordination. Even in an elite-led ecological community, each member should have the right to express himself. Leaders need to build the framework of the community, provide a clear direction and vision for the team’s ecological environment, and create a unified and coherent vision. Leaders need to fully understand the capabilities of employees and make the most reasonable allocations.

Finally, take a macro look at this creative ecological community. Communities need to take uncertainty and have the cultural confidence and resilience to destroy cultural flaws and ensure strong resilience. Of course, the community cannot be closed and introverted. A good ecological community needs to embrace the ideas of outsiders, but also reduce the threat of outsiders. With a strong and self-sufficient ability, it is also necessary to have the ability to generate thought cycles with society.

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