Wednesday, July 03, 2013
Seven Rules for Managing Creative-But-Difficult People
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic - Harvard Business Review: Moody, erratic, eccentric, and arrogant? Perhaps — but you can't just get rid of them. In fact, unless you learn to get the best out of your creative employees, you will sooner or later end up filing for bankruptcy. Conversely, if you just hire and promote people who are friendly and easy to manage, your firm will be mediocre at best. Suppressed creativity is a malign organizational tumour. Although every organization claims to care about innovation, very few are willing to do what it takes to keep their creative people happy, or at least, productive. So what are the keys to engaging and retaining creative employees? via The Producer's Perspective
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The entire article plays to a stereotype similar to that of an actor. They are unrealistic, think themselves better than everyone else, and have their heads in the clouds. Despite this the article makes some very good points. Creative people need to be allowed to fail. Not to show them they were wrong, but to derive as much information as possible out of the mistake. Creative people also like to have purpose. They are driven by meaning rather than money which is why i do not agree with the overpay point. As long as the company doesn't use the salary as a reward a creative individual will continue to work at full capacity regardless of how much he or she is being paid (given it meets their needs). Although the article makes many good points about how to unlock the creative flow, it plays to an idea of a creative person which is not always true.
Articles which concern creative people are always intriguing. This article I would argue however, concerns the manipulation of creative people. The author refers to creative people in a condescending manner, comparing them to children in their first point.
Although, I will say I do agree with the author to an extent. It is important to surrond creatively inclined people with a variety of others, as well as pay them a proper amount. But, I feel like the latter should be obvious. In addition, the author's explanation of their suggestions take on a condescending tone.
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