Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All

by Tom Kelley

Belief in your creative capacity lies at the heart of innovation.

Once you have gone through enough rapid innovation cycles, you will gain familiarity with process and confidence in your ability to assess new ideas. And that confidence results in reduced anxiety in the face of ambiguity when you are bringing new ideas into the world.

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Some people remain stuck in place, sitting at the same desks, next to the same people, going to the same meetings, serving the same customers, as a changing industry climate trends away from them. Others move forward, but at a familiar linear pace, sticking to the same multimonth planning cycle, following the same review-and-approval process, or continuing the same workflow steps, even as the world accelerates around them.

The best kinds of failures are quick, cheap, and early, leaving you plenty of time and resources to learn from the experiment and iterate your ideas.

Check out this quote.

Money will always be easier to measure, which is why it takes a little extra effort to value the heart.

If you want a team of smart, creative people to do extraordinary things, don’t put them in a drab, ordinary space.