Here are what I thought were the highlights ka:
- My reason why I chose an issue was because of this title ka, 'The Business Case for Curiosity' by Professor Francesca Gino, September-October 2018 issue ka.
New research offers the following 3 insights about curiosity:
1. Cultivating creativity at all levels helps leaders and employees adapt to uncertain market conditions and external pressures.
2. By making small changes to the design of their organizations and the ways they manage their employees, leaders can encourage curiosity and improve their companies.
3. Most leaders still stifle curiosity, fearing it will increase risk and inefficiency.
My big sighssss when reading these 3 insights especially the third one, thinking of our education leaders, our cultural traditions of seniority and authority, and our bureaucracy ka..... I know I repeat myself about it real real often and haven't seen as much improvement as we need, chai mai ka?
The article offers 5 ways to bolster curiosity and they are
1) Hire for curiosity --- Google uses questions like, 'Have you ever found yourself unable to stop learning something youve never encountered before? Why? What?' The answer should be something like one just wanted to figure out the answer ka.
IDEO asks about interests outside work, books read unrelated to one's field. Candidates questions asked show their 'natural curiosity' too.
2) Model inquisitiveness through leaders themselves....one question cited was used by anew BBC DG in 2000, 'What is the one thing I should do to make things better for our viewers and listeners?' and then using those answers to form his thinking. This is the art of listening with true respect too na ka, I think....not just listening carefully but making use of what one's learned.
I like this one too ka: The reason why we don't ask questions because we fear to be judged as incompetent, indecisive, or unintelligent, or time is precious and we don't want to bother people....so much similar to us mai ka? I didn't really think westerners have this inner fear in a high degree too!
3) Emphasize learning goals by framing work around them from developing competence, acquiring skills, mastering new situations, etc. rather than performance goals (hitting targets, proving our competence, impressing others)
4) Let employees explore and broaden their interests, e.g. traveling to unfamiliar locales, broadening their networks, and cross-training to develop skills not directly related to workers' jobs.....oh! oh! talk to กพ. too, good?
5) Have 'Why?' 'What if....?' and 'How might we...?' days so people explore and discuss further as they could consider issues from various angles.
- Like the title ka: "Men Buy More from Manly Men".... from Professor Otterbring who tracked purchases people made at a home-furnishings store in a Swedish city. Interesting dee mai ka? He said psychologically, it could be an increased drive for buyers to compete with people of the same gender but this issue has yet to be decided by the retailers as it could affect shorter persons not to visit the stores again too ka.
- Got a tip from May-June 2018 issue about 'The Surprising Power of Questions' ka. It is pointed out that people don't ask enough questions and that we do favor follow-up questions.
After I've shared what I learned, I think I did get some good learning na ka nia!
Have a happy weekend na ka.
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