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Entries Tagged as 'Creativity'

Parenting versus Babysitting - The Manager’s Duty

November 14th, 2006 · 1 Comment

“I didn’t take them on to raise” is a phrase I’ve heard not just once in my professional career. And the retort is, “well, yes you did.”
Crap managers babysit, good managers parent. (And if you’ve had a really rockstar manager, you probably felt like a prize orchid in a champion’s greenhouse).
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Tags: Creativity · Autonomy · Results · Criticism · Motivation · Passion · Wrong

Developing Solvers, Not COGs for the Wheel of Complacency

November 6th, 2006 · No Comments

The 21st century business spends less time doing transformation work (processing raw materials) than it does synthesizing information - true in developed countries and increasingly the case in developing economies.“Hiring profiles will change—indeed, in some tacit-intensive industries, such as software and hospitals, they already have. Managers in these organizations have redefined their job descriptions and […]

Tags: Bus · Creativity · Measure · Develop

Offering more: Blendtec and ‘Will It Blend?’

November 6th, 2006 · No Comments

Creativity is a big motivator for many folks. And a fun atmosphere doesn’t hurt at all.
With those things in mind, would you like to work at Blendtec?
Yeah, me too.
They seem to doing things right.

Tags: Creativity · Fun · More