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Rules for Managing Creative People
- nonamegiven 14y ago"Pay them poorly." I was with them until this. There's no reason to treat a valuable person as a throwaway, and poor pay does that.
- chrisbennet 14y agoThis article was obviously not written by a creative person. I can't wait for their article on how to manage "nerds". "Surround them by semi-boring people" This might be true if your define "creative" as "primadonna who can't handle being challenged". I think there is a real synergistic effect when creative people collaborate. "Pay them poorly." Low pay will motivate them alright- to find another job. I believe those studies found that if you started paying someone for something they were already doing for free (i.e. they didn't consider it work), you reduced their motivation. I don't think those studies can be construed to mean that paying someone below market will make them more motivated.
- namank 14y agoThis is how NOT to manage creative people. The guys took characterizations of a creative person and applied the norms of traditional hierarchical management to them. It's like when you patch a bug..he patched everything about the creative person without actually looking at the big picture. I cannot believe this is on a normative source like HBR.