Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Why businesses can't manage creativity


James Allen outlines why management's role in the corporate creative process is an oxymoron: creativity can't be managed, it can only be encouraged

 In businesses across the world, workers congregate around vast boardroom tables. They think they're having great ideas, but usually they're not. Someone should tell them that you can't schedule inspiration – that it's wholly unreasonable to expect the big idea to spontaneously appear in a brainstorm next Thursday morning at 10:30.