Comments on: Stop Running from Conflict, It’s Where All the New Lives

By: blaine

blaine — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:10:58 +0000

I love this. Thanks.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:10:58 +0000

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.

By: Ozh

Ozh — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:23:00 +0000

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By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:51:01 +0000

What if you’re all just equally awesome? Cause I think that might be my case.

By: Mom

Mom — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:24:30 +0000

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

By: Casey

Casey — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:17:26 +0000

Totally agree. Passivity is poison.

By: Jer.

Jer. — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:02:19 +0000

Yes, I do think.

Thanks again.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:58:47 +0000

I disagree. And would also like to fight about it …

By: Joshua

Joshua — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:19:07 +0000

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?

By: Jer.

Jer. — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:57:27 +0000

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

By: Jer.

Jer. — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:27:45 +0000

Thanks Blankenship. Just sent this to my boss and his boss.

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:16:05 +0000

Awesome post and so true. Let’s all take a note from Festivus and begin with the “Airing of Grievances”.

Seriously, great post.

By: DK

DK — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:45:48 +0000

So true! When’s the book coming out?