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Turning Pushback, One-on-One's Creative People, Part 2.

Here we go.

This cast answers these questions.

What do I tell a direct who says he's too creative to do one-on-ones?

Should managers be allowed to be completely creative?

How important is being creative as a manager?

Well if you want answers to these questions and more keep listening. Our next topic here is creativity is good, right?

We like creativity.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

So look guys, just because creativity is not a reason to not engage in

measurable managerial behaviors doesn't mean creativity isn't great.

You got to be creative. Peter Drucker tells us that the

two core behaviors of any organization are marketing and innovation. And of course the marketing people love that so I'm a creative person not a marketer this

is man I must be Drucker's best guy no actually marketing in Drucker's mind is

going out and finding what the world needs. It is not trying to convince them to buy what

you have decided that they need. That's advertising or selling. Yeah, so you go out and determine what the market needs and then you

create it and that's an innovative process and then you have to continue

innovating because organizations gradually tend toward a boring central tendency and they lose their stars and

blockmen die in unstrategic defiance of martial law. And leave it to Drucker by

the way who's as good as it ever will be to define all of the

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