Let Your People Go!

[Peter Lloyd]

In honor of Indepnedence Day, I've posted "Handcuffing Creativity" on IdeaConnection.

It has always frustrated me the way some managers stifle their greatest source of creativity. I've trained the stifle relfex out of corporate management groups. I've pumped up their rank and file with innovative fire. I've sung to them and sent them all home with the creative spirit shining in their eyes, only to learn that they lose their self-made religion a few weeks later.

And when you get down to the crux of it, success lies not in learning to perform some esoteric repertoire of hard-to-master techniques, but in simply not getting in the way.

Enough grumbling! Enjoy this little adaptation of the Cole Porter tune "Don't Fence Me In" in the spirit of creative freedom.