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	<title>Managing for Creativity in Japan &#187; ecology</title>
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	<description>Talking with Foreign Executives in Japan</description>
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		<title>A Green Plant in the Desert</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Berthelsen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom and Autonomy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Idea Support]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Openness and Trust]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA["...If you are a green plant in the middle of the desert you are going to die..."]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>“On the one hand you have an ecology which is not supportive of creativity and on the other you have an education system which is not supportive.</strong></span> If you are a green plant in the middle of the desert you are going to die, basically. People don&#8217;t like to speak out here, harmony (a key value in a Confucian society) is too important.”</p>
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		<title>The Weirdo</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Berthelsen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creativity Skills]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA["..You can't have him as one of the battery hens, how can you have creativity in that scenario? It's impossible...."]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>“The creative person is the weirdo.</strong></span> The creative person is the one that talks a bit funny (not necessarily). He is the one that you&#8217;ve just got to give space. Let him do whatever he does. <span style="font-size: large;"><strong>You can&#8217;t have him as one of the battery hens, how can you have creativity in that scenario? It&#8217;s impossible.</strong></span></p>
<p>The whole ecology of the way offices in Japan are set up doesn&#8217;t support it. Creativity is rule breaking, it&#8217;s doing something that hasn&#8217;t been done before,  so naturally a creative person is going to upset people. They are mavericks. They are people that will dare to say ‘we need to change this process’. I spoke to a Japanese girl a few weeks ago. She works in a call center and they have to do all these tallies using pencil and paper. She said to her supervisor &#8220;I could do this with Excel or something&#8221; and the supervisor who was in his late forties just came down on her for coming up with an idea. <span style="font-size: large;"><strong>The whole ecology&#8230;it just doesn&#8217;t support questioning the system.”</strong></span></p>
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