How to Destroy Creativity
- Always pretend to know more than anybody else
- Police your employees by every procedural means
- Have your professionally-trained staff members do technicians’ work for long periods of time
- Erect the highest possible barrier between commercial decision-makers and your technical staff
- Don’t speak to employees on a personal level, except when announcing raises
- Be the exclusive spokesman for everything for which you are responsible
- Say yes to new ideas, but do nothing about them
- Call many meetings
- Put every new idea through channels
- Worry about the budget
- Cultivate the not-invented-here syndrome
This, i think, decribes the vast majority of organizations that employ more than, say, 25 people. Good ideas abound. Implementation of the ideas? (crickets)