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the most important part of casting Swings is finding those with the “Swing Brain.” This factor can be difficult to teach and is basically a combination of organizational skills, a “level head,” spatial awareness, and a “go-with-the-flow” attitude.
Lyndy Franklin Smith • Broadway Swings: Covering the Ensemble in Musical Theatre
Of course, the most critical part of directing is getting started: getting the work, spawning a creative culture, and hatching the ideas. Directors are unlike all the other personas because their main purpose is to inspire and direct other people, developing chemistry in teams, targeting strategic opportunities, and generating innovation momentum.
Jonathan Littman • The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO's Strategies for Beating the Devil's Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization
My recommendation is that the whole team read this introduction and Chapters One and Two.
Marcia McFee • Think Like a Filmmaker
How are you experienced by the various groups and subgroups? What role do you play in them? What perspectives on the adaptive issues do you embody for them? Because they are comfortable with the way you usually act, they are probably quite proficient at managing you in that role to ensure that you do not disturb their equilibrium. Consistency is a
... See moreRonald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
We start from the presumption that our people are talented and want to contribute. We accept that, without meaning to, our company is stifling that talent in myriad unseen ways. Finally, we try to identify those impediments and fix them.
Amy Wallace • Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Chloë Sevigny on figuring things out as you go along – The Creative Independent
T. Cole Rachel (interviewer)thecreativeindependent.comSara Holdren • When the Play’s Not the Thing
