Every organization needs a strong team. Every progressive organization needs a dynamic team that will lead the organization forward. Without a dynamic team of unique personalities, likes and interests the creative culture and the life of an organization grows bland and stale. Individuals who are nontraditional create a healthy tension in the way ideas are generated, shared and executed by offering unpredictable perspectives. Some of dynamic individuals include:
Freaks – As Tom Peters put it, freaks are the only (only) ones who succeed – as in, make it into the history books. Jeremy Gutsche states that Nontraditional thinkers offer the maverick ideas and the personality a company needs to adapt.
Crazies – Hire Crazies and avoid moderation (Kevin Robers, CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi)
T-Shaped – Tim Brown of IDEO, fills his company with individuals that posses this quality. As Tim puts it… » Read the rest of this entry «
