More on Creative Thinking
2008 July 11
- Write it down. – Encourage your team to write and share their lives with others. (More blogging!)
- Hire smart. – Hire risk-takers. You need people that are willing to embrace change.
- Bring in outsiders. – Bring in outside perspective to expand your thinking. (That’s how we arrived at our live-streaming technology for multi-site.)
- Be flexible. Very flexible. – The same strategy doesn’t work for every situation.
Good list.
How do you hire risk-takers and still create a stable organization? That’s mostly rhetorical, but I mean this: how do you balance stability and innovation in your creative thinking.
Or is creative thinking always unstable?
(I owe you edits, dude. Sorry I’m late!)
My basic thoughts are balance the risk-takers with non-risktakers; we need people who risk and people who guide. Of course, responsible risk takers are always a help.
I am balanced by a leader who is more calculating and conservative; we make a great team!
(look forward to hearing from you!)