Creative leaders encourage their people to take risks, to try new things. They are not against mistakes.
People are more creative when they trust the process, when they are supported by their colleagues.
As a leader, according to Ed Catmull, ‘You cannot address the obstacles to candor until people feel free to say that they exist (and using the word honesty makes it harder to talk about those barriers).
‘A hallmark of a healthy creative culture is that its people feel free to share ideas, opinions, and criticisms. Lack of candor, if unchecked, ultimately leads to dysfunctional environments.’
‘We have to think about failure differently.’
‘To disentangle the good and the bad parts of failure, we have to recognize both the reality of the pain and the benefit of the resulting growth.’
‘If you create a fearless culture (or as fearless as human nature will allow), people will be much less hesitant to explore new areas, identifying uncharted pathways and then charging down them.’
‘It isn’t enough to pick a path- you must go down it.’
‘When experimentation is seen as necessary and productive, not as a frustrating waste of time, people will enjoy their work- even when it is confounding them.’
‘Trusting others doesn’t mean that they won’t make mistakes. It means that if they do (0r if you do), you trust they will act to help solve it.’
‘Leaders must demonstrate their trustworthiness, over time, through their actions- and the best way to do that is by responding well to failure.’
‘Fear can be created quickly; trust can’t’
‘By sharing problems and sensitive issues with employees, we make them partners and part-owners in our culture, and they do not want to let each other down.’
‘When we are honest, people know it.’
‘To confide in employees is to give them a sense of ownership over the information.’
Source:
Ed Catmull (2014). Creativity Inc. : Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
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