As a creative thinker I have thought of myself as someone that was sometimes trapped inside the snow globe of thinking that others had formally. I would come up with solutions that were taken outside of the normal patterns of behavior which I thought of snow globe and then, come up with something that works. It didn't always fit with what had to happen, it made me feel as I was coming up with something that would help overall.
For a while I thought of my coworkers as people stuck inside the snow. They couldn't see beyond the freezing surface that they saw around them. They were covered up in blankets and jackets that kept them warm up to a certain point but they could not have it be to be that took them outside of the normal procedures. And when I came to them and said that we can step outside the scope of can actually accomplish things without being limited they freaked out because I was wrong.
So I thought of myself as someone that escaped the snow globe at work. I got outside the snow globe and I actually encouraged people to come out with me. But nobody would because they were so comfortable and they enjoyed what they were stuck in and didn't want to do anything different. So there I was, outside the snow globe, alleviating aching people to come out to me. But alone.
A weird feeling, to be sure, but it's the way that I have felt for a long time. And even as I have everything swirling around me as an operations manager I still feel like I'm outside the snow globe and I'm wondering how to get people to come outside of the snow globe with. It's an interesting thought!
