Don't bother being creative

[regfootball]

http://www.cnn.com/2...l?iref=obinsite

it's not rewarded or valued and it won't get you anywhere

is GM the poster child for this? LOL

Edited February 17, 2011 by regfootball

[Intrepidation]

Garbage article. The most successive business people didn't get their by doing the same menial task day in and day out, and neither did the most most successful companies.

[Turbojett]

well they're somewhat right, but not for the reasons they mention. It's been my experience that if you show any signs of cleverness, your superiors immediately become threatened and proceed to make your life a living hell. Leadership seems to be dead nowadays; it seems the only way people get anywhere is subversion of their subordinates.

The idiots always rise to the top.

[daves87rs]

Yep, that pretty much sums it up, Turbo.

[regfootball]

well they're somewhat right, but not for the reasons they mention. It's been my experience that if you show any signs of cleverness, your superiors immediately become threatened and proceed to make your life a living hell. Leadership seems to be dead nowadays; it seems the only way people get anywhere is subversion of their subordinates.

The idiots always rise to the top.

yeah, i've run across plenty of this too.

[Camino LS6]

Just another symptom of the herd mentality so prevalent today.

Sad.

[Drew Dowdell]

my former asshole boss who made my life miserable for years and attended a dozen too many "management seminars" could frequently be heard to say "I'm not looking for ideas! I'm looking for results!"

This was the same guy who handed out popcorn on paper towels to the team minus one person who he was about to fire. The whole team agreed the guy had to go, but his method of doing it was horrible.

I'm so glad he got promoted out of my department.... but he's still considered to be a "managment all star"

[regfootball]

i worked in what was supposed to be a creative industry and i was constantly amazed at how creativity was muzzled, either in a work sense or a management sense. the ones that ascend are indeed like as the article describes. people who recognize those with creative smarts, seek quickly to squash them and in the process make themselves look good.

[FUTURE_OF_GM]

I agree 100% with the article...

Then again, I am one of those social scientists that studies things like this.

It sad really; but it's supported by so many other factors in both the business world and how we interact with one another.

[§carlet §wordfish]

Or, if you really want to be creative, you had better be good at being a kiss-up and a cutthroat as well. I'm not good at the last two, and fear for my prospects at a career in the future.

[A Horse With No Name]

Garbage article. The most successive business people didn't get their by doing the same menial task day in and day out, and neither did the most most successful companies.

Bingo!

well they're somewhat right, but not for the reasons they mention. It's been my experience that if you show any signs of cleverness, your superiors immediately become threatened and proceed to make your life a living hell. Leadership seems to be dead nowadays; it seems the only way people get anywhere is subversion of their subordinates.

The idiots always rise to the top.

This is why I try to work for smaller, family owned companies.

They seem to value effort, ingenuity, creativity and the like.

[Turbojett]

This is why I try to work for smaller, family owned companies.

They seem to value effort, ingenuity, creativity and the like.

I've done that too.I worked for a small(ish) family owned grocery store when I was in high school, but unforunately that was my first taste of Management by Subversion. The middle managers were all idiots, and if you ever did anything right, they'd run to the bosses and take all the credit "No thanks to you", while smearing your name all over their rug.