The “half-time” of knowledge is shrinking all the time. What we know now is useless next year. And information and knowledge is accessible easily through the Internet. Therefore, we should focus on being creative instead of focusing on hoarding knowledge. The “half-time” of knowledge is shrinking all the time. What we know now is useless next year. And information and knowledge is accessible easily through the Internet. Therefore, we should focus on being creative instead of focusing on hoarding knowledge.

1. Improve
EverytHing

2. Creative workers are replacing
knowleDge workers
And so managers must learn
to nurture creativity

3. Inspired by the most innovative companies in the world
5 Principles for Creative Management

4. 1. Nurture Diversity
Creativity managers dislike
brains being the same.

5. 2. Favour Coopetition
Replace hierarchical thinking with network
thinking. (and rethink job titles)

6. 3. Rely on Merits
Devise your own Merit Money programme.

7. 4. Optimize tHE Workplace

8. 4. Optimize tHE Workplace
Encourage play

9. 4. Optimize tHE Workplace
Encourage customization

10. 4. Optimize tHE Workplace
Encourage adaptation

11. 4. Optimize tHE Workplace
Encourage variety

12. 4. Optimize tHE Workplace
Encourage escape

13. 4. Optimize THE Workplace

14. Optimize for exploration and…
optimize for learning, NOT just results;
Remove “brules;”
Mandate experimentation, but…
set explicit constraints.
5. Optimize Constraints

15. 1. Share with the group your idea for an
original Merit Money Scheme.
rememBer THE Homework?

16. Inspired by the most innovative companies in the world
5 Principles for Creative Management
1. Nurture diversity;
2. Favour coopetition;
3. Rely on merits;
4. Optimize the workplace;
5. Optimize constraints.

17. CHaNGE
Management

18. 8 steps to implementing change

19. ‘Sell’ the danger of the status
quo to all stakeholders
1. EstaBlisH a sense of urgency

20. Implementing change cannot
be done as a side-hustle.
2. Form a DeDicateD Team

21. A simple catchy phrase for
everyday use, free from
buzzwords and jargon.
3. Formulate a clear Vision

22. Diligently communicate
the vision with simplicity
and repetition.
4. “ Walk & Talk” tHE vision

23. Invest in training and
development of employees
at all levels.
5. Engage & EnaBLE Teams

24. Create unambiguously
achievable milestones, visible
throughout the organization.
6. Set clear milestones

25. Avoid running out of steam and
maintain the sense of urgency.
7. ConsiliDate Improvements

26. Change won’t last unless it’s aligned
with the organizational culture.
8. Institutionalize new approaches

27. Because the people crazy
enough to think they can
change the world, tend to
be the ones who do.
~ Steve Jobs, Think Different