Jeyan’s Reviews > Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration > Status Update

We’ll be all happier and productive if we hurry up and fail… moving quickly is a plus because it prevents from being stuck and getting nowhere… the director’s job is to say “land is that way”. Maybe it is and maybe it isn’t. It’s not a tragedy if the leader changes her mind and says “I was wrong”... people want decisiveness and honesty

Candor, safety, research, self assessment and protecting the new are all mechanisms we can use to confront the unknown and to keep the chaos and fear to a minimum. These concepts don’t necessarily make anything easier but they can help us uncover hidden problems and thus enable us to address them.

In many organizations managers tend to err on the side of secrecy, keeping things hidden from their employees… What is needed is a thoughtful consideration of cost of secrecy weighted against the risks. When you instantly resort to secrecy you are telling people that they cannot be trusted. When you are candid you are telling people that you trust them and there’s nothing to fear.

Creativity is the best business plan… Quality is not a consequence of following some set of behaviours. Rather it is a prerequisite and a mindset you must have before you decide what you are setting out to do. Everyone says quality is important. But they must do more than say it. They must live, think, and breathe it.