How Well Do You Manage Your 'Highly-Creatives'?
NOTE FROM JIM
Dr. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic is an international authority in personality profiling and psychometric testing. Tomas’ recent HBR article offers some counterintuitive insights about managing and retaining those hard-to-find, highly creative types, who generally speaking, are not conformists.
Tom offers seven effective tips. Consider measuring your actions in managing ‘highly creatives’ against Tom’s seven rules.
To entice your curiosity see the excerpts below. Better still, access the article to appreciate the wisdom of Tomas’ suggestions.
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Seven Rules for Managing Creative People - HBR
by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic |
EXCERPTS
1. Spoil them and let them fail
2. Surround them by semi-boring people
3. Only involve them in meaningful work
4. Don't pressure them
5. Pay them poorly
6. Surprise them
7. Make them feel important
… A final caveat: even when you are able to manage your creative employees, it does not mean that you should let them manage others. In fact, natural innovators are rarely gifted with leadership skills. There is a profile for good leaders, and a profile for creative people — and they are rather different.
Access full article and other great stuff: http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/04/seven_rules_for_managing_creat.html?referral=00563&cm_mmc=email-_-newsletter-_-daily_alert-_-alert_date&utm_source=newsletter_daily_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alert_date
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