Reflect to Create
This text examines the habits of leaders and how they use the process of reflection to create conditions that foster growth in people and the collective well-being of the organization.
2. What the research said and what it means for leaders
2.4. "Reflect to Create"
Defining reflection an Act of Creation
My study concluded that
"at a meta level the overarching value of reflection was that it was an ACT of CREATION: that it could be a process for bringing forth something new into the world – be it an idea, a connection, a feeling, an act, a relationship, service, a product or a solution – instead of leader merely repeating past habits or patterns".
The leaders saw reflection as a key enabler to leading well, as the gateway and the means for "aligning personal fulfillment and professional development"
As Einstein said:
"Problems cannot be solved from the consciousness which created them".
As one leader said:
"reflection was the gateway to possibilities".
Another leader said that:
"I know work in an emergent FUTURE domain which has its presence now".