@article{3bc6e8b626f642dfa2c906b393d0ecf2,
title = "Exploring Organizational Creativity and Mindfulness with Ravi S. Kudesia",
keywords = "Creativity, Metacognition, Mindfulness, Organizational cognition, Technology",
author = "Rohit Mehta and Danah Henriksen and Punya Mishra and Natalie Gruber",
note = "Funding Information: Dr. Kudesia is an Assistant Professor of Management at the Fox School of Business, Temple University. Before joining the Fox School, he was a research fellow at Future Resilient Systems, a think tank established collaboratively by ETH Z{\"u}rich and the National Research Foundation of Singapore. He studies how collective cognitive processes can emerge from group human behaviors. In his words, “When people organize, seemingly individual cognitive processes like attention and interpretation transform into properties of collectives.” The transformation of individualistic cognition into the collective also has implications for organizational creativity and mindfulness. Kudesia argues that organizations, similar to people, are selective about what information to attend to, how to interpret that information, and which interpretations to put their energy into. In this way, he says, “Organizing sustains itself over time on the quality of its cognition,” which leads to the question that drives his scholarship, “…what then sustains the quality of cognition?” His work applies theoretical and practical metacognitive approaches (including conceptualization of mindfulness) to help organizations monitor and adjust their cognition. Thus, he looks for insight in contexts as diverse as meditative traditions and high-reliability organizations using both quantitative (experiments, surveys, simulations) and qualitative (interviews, observations, archival) methods. Our interview with Dr. Kudesia helped unpack some of the key paradigmatic shifts that are required to understand creativity from a perspective of both individual and group-social dynamics. ",
year = "2022",
month = nov,
doi = "10.1007/s11528-022-00787-w",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "66",
pages = "905--910",
journal = "TechTrends",
issn = "8756-3894",
publisher = "Springer New York",
number = "6",
}