It is very important to understand the past to make a right move in the future. It is what makes people wise if they are able to learn from the past i.e. the reflection from the past experience. So, what is it makes experienced people more capable than who are not. As for as the field where creativity is concerned, it’s the unlearning what matters than the learning. However in most cases, where re-engineering or revamping the processes or restructuring the organizations is concerned what matters is the analysis of the past and its reflection for the future.
Experience is nothing but the analytical models that were built in the minds of the professionals which they learned from their past or from their peers. So, these models gives a prediction which is of equal credibility and reliability when you compare with analytical models using softwares like SAS, Business Objects, SPSS etc. As Malcolm Gladwell says, in a blink of an eye, Dr.John Gottsman's intuitive judgement gives whether this married couple will stay for long or not, a manager looking at a process and says right or wrong in an instant. These people, for the last 10-15 years whatever they observed, captured it, refined it, cleansed it and derived patterns to bring about certain conclusions which are of high quality. So, as long as the situation does not change where these people are expertise of, these gut feelings will work.
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Good one Gurava.. my views below:
Yes experience does matter a lot.. in cases that you explained already.. yes decisions based on experience are often considered wise... BUT..but how much does wisdom help you at an organizational level. It may atmost help your organization to sustain but the times are changing and what you need and what you prefer is growth rather than sustainment.
As you have quoted in the post above... 'Its the unlearning what matters than the learning'. Unlearning in such a way that you erase your old obsolete ideas and strategies and go search for new innovations..
Isn't this the reason why India being a young country has the best educated and potential managers?
For Creativity "its the unlearning what matters than the learning".
Creativity is just a new approach which provides more optimistic solution than the existing.
So learning do matters to work on optimizing an existing solution.
Rather it should be termed as an innovation, which is a transformation of an idea from your thought process to the practical process - which is completely new and unlearned, eventually followed by others....
Dude, Creativity needs thought process without any presmptions. so your past learning is always an obstacle, of course it is the one which guides.. however if it is the only one, you never come with a new idea.. you always surround by an old one.
thats really true Gurava.
And I totally agree to what you say about experienced people and their views
@ Deepthi..
Thanks for the comments :)
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