Team Flow February 13, 2012
Posted by Jeff Pasquale in Business, Creativity, Leadership, Learning, Life, Management, Relating, Teams, Teamwork.Tags: business, Leadership, Life, management, teams, teamwork
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Team flow is simply the ease of getting things accomplished.
A team will flow effortlessly when these 3 things do not exist – fear, blame, and conceit.
A lack of fear, blame, and conceit will open the space necessary for great ideas to grow and flow throughout a team.
You cannot police the flow of your team; you can only be alert for when you are being fearful, blame-focused, or self-important.
The power of this threesome is such that if even a single member of a team embraces one of them, the team’s flow, or ability to accomplish, will be diminished.
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Everyone Creates February 3, 2012
Posted by Jeff Pasquale in Business, Creativity, Leadership, Learning, Life, Personal Development.Tags: business, creativity, learning, Life, personal development
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Creativity and standardization do coexist comfortably despite popular opinion’s best efforts to keep them separate. Standardization is the foundation upon which to build and establish things. Creativity improves them.
Creativity is really problem-solving in disguise. Each one of us has been forced to be creative from time to time. Whether it’s figuring out a different route home because a road is blocked or coming up with another way to process an order at work because the system is down, you can create; you just may not believe it.
Everyone is creative; the difference between a highly creative person and one who says he is not is confidence.
You may prefer the straight and narrow path of predictability instead of creativity. If so, be prepared to change plans when your system fails because of a power outage, or a strike shuts down your supplier’s plant, or your laptop gets stolen. These are all situations that require creativity on your part. You’re going to have to figure out something.
Learn to flip the switch and create on demand. Get comfortable with thinking on your feet and not spending hours in the conference room with teammates trying to decide where the company logo should go on your coffee mugs.
There is a time and a place for standardization but there is an ever-increasing demand for creating great things (products or services) quickly and affordably.
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