Tuesday, May 19, 2015

You need to surround yourself with 'Freaks' not 'Squares'

An excellent lesson from gapingvoid art. Our stroke associations need lots of freaks to throw out all the deadwood.
http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=028de8672d5f9a229f15e9edf&id=d3e607734a&e=74020f8000
Every large organization will have its “squares”…the guys who do everything right, say everything right, go to all the right meetings, and know how to wield a golf club properly - especially in the presence of an important client.
As impressive as these people can be, few of them will end up changing the world.

The way I see it is, the really great moves forward are made from the really great ideas.

And those ideas are found not on the golf course, but on the intellectual outskirts of the business, from the people hanging out in left field i.e. The Freaks.

The more freaks you have tinkering away productively on their mad ideas, protected from the short-term minutiae of running a business, the more interesting your company will become.


The poster art for this can be purchased at the site. In case you need to visibly hang  the poster in a squares' office. 

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