Just touching on yesterday’s post relating to creativity. Where does it exist in a small business? Everywhere I guess and in places you least expect. Perhaps in the creative process, those best positioned are the people that are ignorant, young, new to the business and inexperienced . They don’t know how things are supposed to be, they are not blinded by what happens at the moment. They haven’t fallen into the trench of existing beliefs and don’t carry the baggage other people might.

Being new and inexperienced you see things differently, see things other people have failed to notice and they imagine ideas that other people who are narrow, focused and experts just can’t. They don’t know what they are supposed to see, are not organisational captive and, in many respects, haven’t had the life sucked out of them by systems and procedures.

Occasionally, being ignorant is bliss, seeing new ways of doing old things, having a different perspective and thinking about ideas your company has never thought about.