So true! When’s the book coming out?
Awesome post and so true. Let’s all take a note from Festivus and begin with the “Airing of Grievances”.
Seriously, great post.
Thanks Blankenship. Just sent this to my boss and his boss.
Been thinking about this so more. Shared it with some people, some agree, some disagree. I read the below quote a year ago and thought it was worth sharing.
“Real creativity, the kind that is responsible for breakthrough changes in our society, always violates the rules. That is why it is so unmanageable and that is why, in most organizations, when we say we desire creativity we really mean manageable creativity. We don’t mean raw, dramatic, radical creativity that requires us to change.
— Richard Farson, from his book Management of the Absurd: Paradoxes in Leadership
Shared it with some people, some agree, some disagree.
The fact that you agree and others around you don’t makes a compelling argument for its validity, don’t you think?
I disagree. And would also like to fight about it …
Yes, I do think.
Thanks again.
Totally agree. Passivity is poison.
Get irreverent…get open…get diverse….
or GET OUT before you forget you ever had the creative thought to innovate in the first place…or even what it looked or felt like
The conflict ITSELF may be the beginning of the extraordinary things to come….take the risk
What if you’re all just equally awesome? Cause I think that might be my case.
FYI, your page takes ages to load because it’s waiting for adn.fusionads.com before it can display anything.
Ozh, my slow load times have more to do with media content and my absurdly poorly coded bloated CSS files than with external JS calls. I’m guessing you hit it on a random off time.
I love this. Thanks.
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Stop Running from Conflict, It’s Where All the New Lives
Thu 01/08/09
When was the last time you had a major work-related disagreement with someone on your team or someone you work with? If you had to think about it, it was too long ago.
Lack of conflict is present on teams where 1) someone isn’t speaking up, 2) the culture/structure doesn’t permit dissension or dialogue, or 3) everyone is in near persistent agreement. All three of these are detrimental to innovation on their own, and absolutely deadly in combination.
Get irreverent, get open, and get diverse.
Or get used to never accomplishing anything extraordinary.