John Kao Quotes About Management

Quotes about: Management

• Communication is the essential medium of a creative culture: the communal sea in which we all swim. A company that can't communicate is like a jazz band without instruments: Music just isn't going to happen.

  John Kao

  Communication, Sea, Creative

• I would argue that the management of creativity requires a skill set that's relatively different from the traditional management skill set that is appropriate to a large, complex, industrial-era organization.

  John Kao

  Creativity, Skills, Organization

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

• The management of creativity is more intimate. By that I mean that it deals with an individual's personal, psychological landscape. It deals with the way you create relationships. It deals with creating an atmosphere and environment that support the creative process. As a result, it is a management skill set that is inherently psychological and that encourages desired outcomes rather than demands those outcomes.

  John Kao

  Creativity, Mean, Skills

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

• In the end it is the musician who actually plays the notes. The impresario - or the project leader - is only there to make sure that happens. That is a very different type of management mind-set.

  John Kao

  Play, Leader, Mind

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

• The impresario function is about intervening with the company's more administrative management structure. It is about trying to establish a sense of boundaries and budgets and milestones and so forth on a project that does not necessarily lend itself to milestones. It is about translating between the intimate interior environment of the creative work team and the company's need to make money. And finally, it is about positioning the fruits of the creative process in the marketplace and selling them.

  John Kao

  Team, Creative, Trying

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

• The larger the price tag, the more you have to adopt what I call the postmodern management approach. What I mean by that is that you have to use everything when you make a decision.

  John Kao

  Mean, Price Tag, Decision

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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