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The impresario function is about intervening with the company's more administrative management structure. It is about trying to establish a sense of boundaries and budgets and milestones and so forth on a project that does not necessarily lend itself to milestones. It is about translating between the intimate interior environment of the creative work team and the company's need to…

The traditional model for a company like Coca-Cola is to hire one big advertising agency and essentially outsource all of its creativity in that area. But Coca-Cola does not do it that way. It knows how to manage creative people and creative teams and it has been quite adept at building a network that includes the Creative Artists Agency in…

If you are at Coca-Cola, the creative challenge is one of maintaining - rather than creating - a tremendous level of consumption for your products.

In a corporate context, companies have to try very hard to oppose the enticements of conventional wisdom. They must aim for the leaps, which means that companies have to do more than simply manage their knowledge, which is composed of the insights and understandings they already know. They also have to manage the knowledge-generation process. It's not just about, "Oh,…

Coca-Cola can get really fresh output because it is getting people who are outside the traditional model and they are combining ideas in very novel ways.

All of these creative ideas and decisions about new ways to reach the consumer can be tracked with regard to how well they are…

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The imagination is like a muscle: it strengthens through use.

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If you come up with a new product, you can very easily track its contribution to the bottom line. But often the challenge can…

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Companies have to take risks to get new knowledge, in a manner similar to how jazz musicians take risks when they go after a…

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Performers may play in the studio, but they need to go out and tour every once in a while to keep their edge, or…

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You would not let your kids do whatever they want. So the challenge is to create accountability in a non-mechanistic way. You cannot come…

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There's real "right brain" creativity that goes into all of the organizational processes that a company utilizes and must continually reinvent in order to…

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Capability is just a concept of what is it we're looking at. Now how far we can go along that and what new capabilities…

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Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

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We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it.

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Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief…

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One of the capabilities, which seems to be the most difficult for aspiring leaders to maste is realistic optimism. It requires one to recognize that our experience of life is largely up to us, that our situations, good or bad, are largely due to our ability on a moment-to-moment basis to capitalize on opportunity. Those that approach life as if…

You have the capability to change your life all with a simple shift in perspective

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If you are facing a new challenge or being asked to do something that you have never done before don’t be afraid to step…

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Clearly, if wed had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex…

Douglas Trumbull

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We've learned that we've allowed technological capabilities to dictate policies and practices, rather than ensuring that our laws and values guide our technological capabilities.

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I'm just confident in myself and my capability to be able to play this position.

Teddy Bridgewater

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Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama's political opponents, finds excuses for every…

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The Iranians know that if they develop nuclear weapons, they will be in tremendous jeopardy from military capabilities of their neighbors and of the United States. I am not predicting what will happen in 2013, but I do think it is a crucial year. I hope we can make it clear to the Iranians that we do not object to…

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