Does Constraint Enhance or Inhibit Creativity?

The good news is there is never a recession on creativity. Limitation can enhance innovation as it inspires Innovators to push to the next level. Innovation is the key driver of productivity, and as every good B-school student is taught, it is increases in productivity that drive economic growth.

But as much as B-schools and news outlets try to make economics oh so scientific, at a gut-level it is likely most of us know that the ability to “increase productivity” really boils down to the the best and brightest among us putting on their thinking caps and, well....innovating. (that's what the term" jobless recovery" means in real life.....people actually making things happen.....finding/being the one that produces X2, X5, X10!)

So my vote is to give the entrepreneurial thinkers of this world all the support and freedom (and compensation) they need to start making things happen again. Some people seem to think too much innovation got us into this mess, so they want to control it like water (stagnating) in a dam. But, let’s be honest, true Innovators just aren’t that motivated if leashed....give them the ability to run, and they’ll lead everyone who follows to the promised land....but restrict innovation.....hmmmm, where have we heard this before.....Who is John Galt? (Yes, the answer is on the Internet! But we won't find Mr. Galt social networking.) ~ Karen Dacus