Leading Clever People

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  atsbusiness11/03/07 Report as spam
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  Excellent! Excellent!

  Very good! In education, the "creative" person is probably identified as an abstract learner. An Abstract learner, one who "collects" concepts, rules, processes and other seemingly non-connected paradigms. When the time comes for a certain task to be achieved, the abstract studies the requirements and creatively solves the problem with their diverse set of "whatever". An abstract person is seemingly always creating. About 15% of the population is this type. Do not allow them too much freedom though. Define the boundaries and let them work their creativity within the boundaries. The article is correct. Keep the doubters and naysayers away from the creative people except to test the final product. Naysayers are not always bad either. But that's another article. Design equally effective environments for your visual, auditory and tactle people too. They will be just as effective as the creative person in their own right. In my teaching years, I used to mix my content delivery, not always starting with a reading assignment (Abstract), lecture (Auditory), demonstration (Visual) and then do a project (Tactle or hands-on), in order. Switching them, made the group that I started first with look like the geniuses. They simply had the information first.
  
  Allen Smith (Creative Person and abtsract) LOL
  www.atsbusiness.com

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  mai gamal11/03/07 Report as spam
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  RE: Leading Clever People

  Leading clever peopli is very useful

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  rjkson11/09/07 Report as spam
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  There is more to it than that.

  I strongly agree and support the article published, however, creative and 'bright' people needs to be controlled and humbled at times. Sometimes it is necessary to hang them out through the window and show them who is boss!. At times their ego gets ahead of them, giving the impression that they are the repository of all knowledge..........this needs to be controlled!
  
  Richard J. Jackson
  Civil Engineer
  Jamaica
  (876)-784-0876

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  Nirgun11/13/07 Report as spam
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  This is a very relevant article which has been proved effectively in many situations. I must congratulate the auther for doing a service to talented people who are the creators of our society.Bravo!!!
  The so called freedom we give to our subordinates effectively mean the ."Freedom to Fail." Without that no one will take risks and experiment. The clever people are a creed of their own who should be handled with sensitivity.
  
  Mohan Das

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  murthy9vvbs@...11/20/07 Report as spam
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  I appreciate the views of the author for taking this topic to the public notice.
  
  - the stakes are very high in the case of clever people.
  - they excel in their field but some times lack the sense of sharing their ideas. Keeps aloof, maintains introvertedness.
  Some time forgets simplest things.
  - For them one mentor has to be there always either in the form of a teacher, superior boss, wife, friend or mother.
  - Too much of anything is dangerous - these people simply fall prey to illegitimate nuisences.

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  jon_camilleri@...11/21/07 Report as spam
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  RE: Leading Clever People

  Excellent article!

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  Simz11/23/07 Report as spam
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  RE: Leading Clever People

  well the last point makes sense

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  Nirgun11/25/07 Report as spam
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  I am happy to note that Rob & Gareth have hit the nail on its head when they described that freedom is the freedom to fail. Actually everyone gives freedom when you succeed.
  That freedom where you work without the fear of failing brings the best in the clever people . Only a manager who works in freedom can give this freedom to clever people under them.
  So the manger or the owner of the enterprise has to be clever as well to calculate as to which portion of their business can be risked and the people working on that portion of the business or project can be given freedom. This discretion to select such project is essential since 90% of people are not clever and they have to be protected as well.
  Nirgun

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  patrick@...11/26/07 Report as spam
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  All the bosses of clever people need to read this! I wonder what my CEO will think of this...