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Creative Experience (Follett)
Follett's 1924 book and foundational concept — the experience of participating in the generation of something genuinely new that could not have been predicted from the properties of the participants considered in isolation.
Mary Parker Follett's 1924 book and the culminating concept of her philosophy. Creative experience is not about brainstorming techniques or the cultivation of individual genius. It is about the conditions under which human beings working together on genuine problems produce outcomes that transform both the problem and the people working on it. It sits at the intersection of every other idea Follett developed: power-with is its political condition, the law of the situation its epistemological condition, integration its process, circular response its mechanism, constructive conflict its raw material. Creative experience is what it feels like from the inside when all these conditions are met simultaneously. In the AI workplace, the question is whether tools enhance or diminish the conditions under which creative experience occurs — and Follett's framework shows the answer depends entirely on organizational choice.
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