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Break the rules and win

September 2, 2009 | By Paul Ryan

Whoda thunk it? People who bend and break rules and ignore and defy authority are more likely to be creative, innovative and more valuable to an organisation.

In this 2004 video from the wonderful Academic Earth, Robert Sutton, author of “Weird Ideas that Work“, argues that authority has its place, but most businesses succeed when creativity is allowed to flourish.

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  • http://www.twitter.com/nickdallariva nick dalla riva

    Paul,

    You should source the Daniel Pink presentation from TEDxLondon this year. It, along with this presentation makes a great case for why organisations are full of people who get things done – with no apparent consumer beenfit. for whyinnovation does not occurr in large organisations. For why it is that people who change things do not survive and are not protected in the large organisations, and hence customers and consumers never get better service!

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  • John Power

    Hmmm…so in a recent workshop, when asked by JT to “Clap” in an unspecified fashion, my particular attempt at knocking out the WT Overture and communicating the tune to the team was in fact…creative, innovative and more valuable to an organisation…whoda thunk it!

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    James Tuckerman Reply:

    Valuable, creative… and cheating! ;-)

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    John Power Reply:

    James,
    At worst it was maybe a tech foul, where was the term sheet ?
    You need a “Clap” performance clause!
    Engineer 1
    Lawyer 0
    (I’ll behave next time):-)

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  • Trevor Rose

    i wish there were some australian employers who understood this… good to hear it being spoken finally

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