When engaging with the creative process from an evolutionary perspective, we need to find out what works and what doesn't work. It's a process of trail and error.
How then do we arrive at something worth using? Besides the endless reworking of systems, dynamics and patterns of thinking and behaving, we need something more inclusive to take us into the future.
Ken Wilber's Integral Operating System (IOS) springs to mind when thinking of how to fit all this creativity and restructuring together. This is because it's one of the most advanced systems out there.
It can be applied to almost any field. From medicine to psychology, from coaching to business, to ecology and science. Let's take the business model as and example. This model gives us a comprehensive map of the marketplace, integrating both traditional markets and virtual markets.
The model stresses 4 areas for leadership development in the field of business. It focuses on psychological understanding in the 'I' quadrant (upper left), organisational cultural management in the 'We' quadrant (lower left), individual behavior in the 'It' quadrant (upper right) and systems management (social & environmental) in the 'Its' quadrant (lower right).
This gives us a comprehensive all quadrant, all level framework for business leadership development. This model can be extremely useful when positioning oneself at the leading edge of business development. Mainly due to its integrative nature.
When we engage with the creative process, and I would argue that we need more of this trail and error to formulate new systems across the board, we can then use such a model to integrate what works and discard what doesn't. It allows us to advance to higher levels of development within each quadrant.
This will assist us in re-engineering systems for a more positive and holistic outlook. Not only does the external system get re-wired, but our behavior and thinking gets upgraded too. This is because the 2 are not separate, but inter-linked in an integral operating system.
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