Why You Should Reinvent Your Organization

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‘It’s time for every organization, whatever its size and scope, to profoundly and deeply examine the reason it exists, and to practice, over and over again, telling that story to every stakeholder in its ecosystem.’

If machines eliminate jobs, and jobs give our lives meaning, what are we going to do to keep ourselves believing that we matter?’

‘If people can’t work, what happens to our drive for community? Or our eagerness to continue?’

‘We bring our need and our talent for connection with other human beings into every aspect of our lives, including work.’

‘We bring our human need to connect with other people right smack dab into our jobs and our workplaces.’

‘It’s people at work who bring empathy, connection, magic, warmth, understanding, joy, creativity, imagination, beauty, and innovation to organizations as they build things, serve customers, and meet their mission.’

‘Toxic workplaces have myriad consequences- on profit, on the planet, and on people.’

‘It’s time for organizations to get back to basics and remember what the people who work for them need, and what the world needs.’

‘The speed of our connection moves us fleetingly from one thing to another, with very little time to think and add value by learning and growing.’

‘Creating workplaces fit for human life, and paying conscious attention to the soft stuff of people-centered leadership and culture, is not simply about making people happy at work.’

To help employees feel alive at work, leaders must look more closely and consider what motivates people, what makes their hearts sing, why they work, and what they dream.’

‘The only thing more expensive than an employee leaving is an employee who is miserable and stays.’

Source:

Moe Carrick (2019). Bravespace Workplace: Making Your Company Fit for Human Life

How Creative Leaders Lead

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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