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IMPROVISATION VS STRUCTURE PARADOX • The goal was to add some method to their madness without losing the madness entirely evaluate projects according to their impact. • Improvisation versus Structure Too much structure—rules, hierarchy, planning, and the like—will stifle innovation, but too little will produce chaos. • To deal with these tensions that constantly threaten to tear every community apart, a creative community needs what we call “rules of engagement.” Innovation and rules may seem like an odd couple. How can creativity and improvisation require rules? Aren't innovators rule breakers, people willing—eager, even—to challenge the status quo? • They try to define what the innovation will look like, often through something like a list of requirements or characteristics, and then lay out the steps that will produce such an outcome. But, virtually by definition, a real innovation cannot be identified in advance. The most innovative teams proceed neither by detailed plans nor by no plans at all. Instead, they alternate brief periods of planning with longer periods of execution and improvisation. • Many leaders, of course, like structure because it provides the comfort of control
Left to their natural tendencies, organizations, even successful ones, ironically, will proliferate the number of control structures they use—specific goals, detailed plans, progress reports, hierarchy, processes, policies, and the like— even in the search for innovation. They neither understand nor feel comfortable with the improvisation and autonomy that innovation requires. IMPROVISATION VS STRUCTURE
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Page 7 and 8: OLD SCHOOL Over the past few decade
Page 9 and 10: “My job,” he said, “is to set
Page 12 and 13: WILLING & ABLE WILLING: bound by co
Page 14 and 15: TALENT IS CRITICAL • Even with th
Page 16 and 17: CONSCIOUS EXPERIMENTATION • Learn
Page 18 and 19: COLLABORATION • The process of in
Page 21: CREATIVE ABRASION …is a process i
Page 25: CREATIVE RESOLUTION …is the organ
Page 28 and 29: INDIVIDUAL VS COLLECTIVE PARADOX
Page 32 and 33: SUPPORT VS CONFRONTATION • How ca
Page 34 and 35: LEARNING VS PERFORMANCE PARARDOX
Page 36 and 37: PATIENCE VS URGENCY • They did in
Page 38 and 39: CREATIVE INTEGRATION OF THE PARADOX
Page 40 and 41: PURPOSE DRIVEN COMMUNITY • Purpos
Page 43: VALUES “Design was not just a ser
Page 46 and 47: TOMORROW’S LEADERS Idealists, yet
Page 49: THE OPPOSABLE MIND Working through

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