how to kill creativity in 10 easy steps!
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How to Kill Creativity in 10 easy steps!TRANSCRIPT
Based on Managing & Organizations - Clegg, Kornberger & Pitsis (2005)
10: When the proposed idea is not radical enough, just say that the idea is not really new – and that someone else already did it
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9: When the proposed idea is tooradical, you can always argue that no one has done it before – and that there might be reasons for this
8: Embrace new ideas when you talk, but do not do anything about them
7 Be the exclusive
spokesperson for
every new idea,
regardless of
whether it is your
own or not
6: Never talk to
employees on a
personal level,
except for annual
meetings – at
which you praise
your social and
communicative
leadership skills
5: Create boundaries between decision-makers, technical
staff, and creative minds. Make sure that they
speak different languages
4: Always pretend to know more than anybody around you. Especially be suspicious when people from below come up with ideas. You know better!
3:Make sure that creative staff do a lot of technical and detailed work.
Make sure that they do their own bookkeeping, and count everything you can count as often as possible
2: Run daily checks on the progress of
everyone’s work. Be critical (they love it!) and withhold positive
feedback, which would only encourage them to
do things that are potentially dangerous
1: Police your employees by every procedural means that you can devise. Insist that they stick to the rules of good old bureaucracy and fill in many forms that need to be signed by almost every senior manager in the organization