Creating Quote by John Kao

The management of creativity is more intimate. By that I mean that it deals with an individual's personal, psychological landscape. It deals with the…

— John Kao

I've often heard people say that managing creative people is the hardest thing in the world. 'They're never happy, they drive up the cost…

— John Lasseter

“Managing creative people—not so easy,” she says. “A lot of emotion, a lot of stroking. Some people need tough love. Some people need a…

— Fast Company

You can't manage creativity. You need to manage for creativity. You need to create the space for it to emerge.

— Arianna Huffington

Instead of command and control, managing the creative process is about facilitating and permitting.

— John Kao

“The way I see it, my job as a manager is to create a fertile environment, keep it healthy, and watch for the things…

— Ed Catmull

There are not many people who understand that creative management is a very different thing than normal management. You don't manage accounts like you…

— Evan Sharp

Management is the set of skills that can help get things done. Unfortunately, its practice is too often a bag of manipulative tricks to…

— Frances Hesselbein

“There’s something else that bears repeating here: Unleashing creativity requires that we loosen the controls, accept risk, trust our colleagues, work to clear the…

— Ed Catmull

Management is the art of getting things done through people.

— Mary Parker Follett

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom while discouragement often nips it at the bud. Creativity is now…

— Alex Faickney Osborn

When you come into a creativity-driven environment, things are very different and there is the danger that a traditional managerial mind-set could even do…

— John Kao