One doesn’t manage creativity. One manages for creativity.

A common viewpoint of the participants of a two-day colloquium at Harvard Business School that has been outlined in the article “Creativity and the Role of the Leader” of the Harvard Business Review.
One good point of this article is about “managing the commercialization handoff”, where the participants emphasized on the importance to connect idea originators with commercializers, “rather than trying to teach inventors to spot market opportunities”.
The discussion on the article (e.g. “Can you lead creativity?“) pointed me to the news that John Maeda is now head of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). John’s great inauguration speech is part of his new blog. I appreciate John’s attempt to make us better understand the “Laws of Simplicity” (Nice video on TED).