Insecurity => creativity?? LO10518

Bill Harris (billh@lsid.hp.com)
Wed, 16 Oct 96 8:17:16 PDT

Replying to LO10504 --

Rol Fessenden writes:

>So, without wanting to be classified as an apologist for corporate
>down-sizers (I am not), I would like very much to raise this issue. Is
>security and stability possible and achievable? Should these be goals of
>corporations? Are they anathema to creativity? On the other hand, does
>down-sizing, which creates insecurity and instability, contribute to
>increased creativity? If I were a corporation, how would I increase
>creativity? How would I structure insecurity and instability to increase
>productive creativity?

Have a look at at Edgar Schein's paper "Organizational and Managerial
Culture as a Facilitator or Inhibitor of Organizational Learning" found at
http://learning.mit.edu/res/wp/10004.html. Some kinds of psychological
safety seem beneficial for learning and change (sorry for being redundant
:-).

Bill

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