Dear list,
Harvard Business Review has posted a blog on Seven Rules for Managing Creative-But-Difficult People
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/04/seven_rules_for_managing_creat.html
According to the blog, the keys to engaging and retaining creative employees are:
1. Spoil them and let them fail
2. Surround them by semi-boring people
3. Only involve them in meaningful work
4. Don't pressure them
5. *Pay them poorly*Don't overpay them
7. Make them feel important
The blog finishes with a colourful caveat:
-snip-
A final caveat: even when you are able to manage your creative employees, it does not mean that you should let them manage others. In fact, natural innovators are rarely gifted with leadership skills. There is a profile for good leaders, and a profile for creative people — and they are rather different... [Creative employees] exhibit many of the psychopathic characteristics that prevent them from being effective leaders: they are rebellious, anti-social, self-centered and often too low in empathy to care about the welfare of others. But manage them well, and their inventions will delight us all.
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I don't think it's too much of a stretch to say that the author of this blog post has an almost complete misunderstanding of creative processes.
Psychopathically yours,
Luke
Chamorro-Premuzic, T. (2013, April 2) Seven Rules for Managing Creative-But-Difficult People [Blog post]. Retrieved from http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/04/seven_rules_for_managing_creat.html
Luke Feast | Early Career Development Fellow | PhD Candidate | Faculty of Design, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia | [log in to unmask] | Ph: +61 3 9214 6165 | http://www.swinburne.edu.au/design/
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