How to Create, Innovate and Thrive in a Global Economy

The weekly meeting of the Rotary Club of Kirkcaldy was held at the Dean Park Hotel on Tuesday 28th February. 24 Members were in attendance with two guests and 2 visiting Rotarians.

President Mark referenced the Past Presidents Dinner mentioning how enjoyable it had been and that thought would be given to bringing it forward in order that the Senior Vice President could also attend in the future.

The young Musician district final was attended by Kieran who had recently played for us at the Sherry tasting evening, Kieran was highly commended. The Women’s International day at St. Andrews High has been postponed until after Easter. PP John has created posters and flyers for Friends of Rotary and the first meeting has been delayed until the 21^st April. Secretary’s announcements – District 10/10 handover lunch will be on 2^nd July in Elgin.

The speaker was James Taylor from C-School on the topic of ‘How to Create, Innovate and Thrive in a Global Economy.’ He started off by saying that all the physical items we could see in the room had ultimately started off as someone’s creative idea. In terms of progression in the last 50 years we have evolved through the Age of Efficiency, on to the Age of Quality, thereafter the Age of Flexibility and we are now in the Age of Creativity. There is a creativity gap in that everyone needs to be creative, however only 39% of people believe they are. James went on to detail some of the methods for increasing personal creativity, and mentioned that we should all be practicing Continuing Creative Development just as we would embrace Continued Professional Development.

President Mark gave the vote of thanks confirming how hard it indeed was to try and get employees to be creative.