Web 2.0 Expo SF ‘08: 10 Tips for Managing a Creative Environment, Slides
by Sarah B.Bryan Mason and I gave a talk last Thursday at Web 2.0 Expo ‘08 San Francisco called “10 Tips for Managing a Creative Environment.” As we promised attendees of that talk, we have posted the slides here. We will soon be posting a slidecast of the same talk with audio from SXSW.
For the talk, Bryan and I talked with several creative groups, including the Neo-Futurists, the writers of Avenue Q, a writing collective called The Job Factory, and Ryan Freitas about his experiences working at Aqua, a San Francisco restaurant. We also drew on our own experiences in stage management and classical music. We chose these groups primarily because they, like design teams, create as groups, are schedule-focused, and are trying to do something different with the creative process.
From the research, we looked for common problems and techniques the groups used to deal with those problems. During the presentation, we share the stories and techniques we found.
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May 9th, 2008 at 4:40 am
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May 11th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
This is an important topic. Managing creative people can be challenging. On the one hand, you want to make it so that your people’s minds are open and playful; on the other, you need them to meet deadlines and to make sure their product (efforts, results, etc.) solve the problem and meet customer’s expectations. From my own experience, I’ve found that this can be quite a tightrope walk.