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Friday, January 18, 2002 |
Think You Manage Creativity? Here's Why You're Wrong
"The rational rules of management don't apply when it comes to fostering creative types. In this Harvard Business Review excerpt, the author explains why you should, among other things, encourage creative workers to defy superiors." [in HBS Working Knowledge, via ia]
Wow. This explains so much about me! I want a medal for "'extraordinary contempt and defiance beyond the normal call of [Internet librarian] duty!" There's soooo much I could quote here, that I'm just going to tell you to go read it instead. And if you're a library administrator or a supervisor in any capacity, please take some of these ideas to heart. We don't need any more drones in the library world.
And as a reminder, when I post articles like this on my blog, please remember to read them in the context of libraries. Just substitute that word any time you see "business", "organization", "team", "company", and the link. That's what I do....
11:21:46 AM Permanent link here
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I think I've always been interested in Information Architecture (IA), I just didn't know it. When I was in college and I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up, my mom told me I should think about librarianship. It was one of the best pieces of advice I've ever been given, and it started me down this path combining technology (specifically Internet-related services) and libraries.
In a way, IA is the intersection where these two bubbles meet, which is why I want to understand IA better. I am by no means an expert (I consider myself the proverbial "jack of all trades, master of none"), but I do have quite the long list of things I want to learn, including more about IA.
If you want to learn more about this, too, here is a good, basic starting point: Information Architecture for the Rest of Us from WebWord (a great site I"ve been reading for a couple of years now. I found this link from the ia blog, a source I will be watching closely from now on thanks to my Radio News Aggregator!
10:49:55 AM Permanent link here
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Rafe says, "My next CD-related product is going to come from Philips. They're defying the movement among record companies toward "copy protected" audio CDs not only by refusing to allow those CDs to bear the official CD trademark, but also by saying that their CD burners will be able to both read and burn those copy protected discs."
I agree 100%, although most of my stuff is Sony so I hope they hop on the cluetrain, too. But I am willing to switch to keep what I consider to be my fair use rights.
9:24:58 AM Permanent link here
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I hadn't read Mr. Z in a while, but now that I'm catching up on blogs in my spiffy Radio News Aggregator (worth the $40 alone), I notice that he's also pointing to A List Apart's Standards-compliant Style Sheet Switcher (details here). Very cool, and very free. Hopefully I'll be able to incorporate this (as well as color background changes) into the new SLS portal. We'll see though, as I still have my doubts about making Oracle Portal do what I want.
Note to all public librarians: Mr. Z is speaking at PLA on March 12 about "How to Write so Your Audiences Will Read What You're Saying." In fact, the whole program for that day, called "Click Here First: Make Your Library Web Site the Stickiest Spot in Town" looks incredibly awesome! (Shout out to Frances - you go girl!)
I will be in Phoenix during that time, although I won't be at PLA (my organization doesn't send me to this conference, although I do usually get to go to Internet Librarian), and d'oh - it's a preconference event. If you go, I'd love to hear about it. Sigh. :-(
8:16:34 AM Permanent link here
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