Embrace creativity within the team
Posted on October 5th, 2008 in Online Business, Interesting stuff |
I’ve just scanned(read) last issue of Harvard Business Review and there is article about how to make teams/companies creative
* … remember that you are not the sole fount of ideas
* be the appreciative audience
* ask the inspiring questions
* allow ideas to bubble up from the workforce
* … enable collaboration
* combat the lone inventor myth
(this is very actual thing for me now around allwomenstalk.com)
* define “superstar” as someone who helps others succeed
* use “coordinators totems” - metaphors, analogies, and stories - to help teams conceptualize together
* embrace diversity
* get people in with different backgrounds/experience to work together
* encourage to gain different experience
… can’t remember
* … accept the inevitability and utility of failure
* create psychological safety to maximize learning from failure
* recognize different kinds of failure and show how to use it
* … motivate with intellectual challenge
* protect front end from commercial pressure
* clear paths through the bureaucracy for ideas
* let people do “good work”
nice tips - isn’t it?