Dialogue and Creativity in the Workplace

In this chapter, we examine how a creative workplace can be created from a phenomenological perspective. For example, the attitude of Epoché): Suspension of Judgment, which reflects the importance of listening to what the other person is saying, is an essential element of dialogue. If you interpret the other person's words in your mind and arrive at a conclusion before you have finished listening, you may be able to listen verbally, but this does not imply that you are really listening. In the realm of passive synthesis, we must be sensitive to whether the other person is really listening to us; moreover, people will not talk to someone who is not listening to them. In this way, we explain the relationship between dialogue and corporeality and the phenomenon of flow as expressed in collective creativity.