A short YouTube talk emphasizing that creativity is essential across organizations and flourishes amid problems and chaos. The speaker highlights leaders' willingness to tolerate calculated risk and experiment with counterintuitive solutions, balancing innovation with contingency planning (backup plans).
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You know, I think we forget that creativity matters everywhere and creativity thrives in the face of problems, obstacles or chaos. And I love when leaders get together and they face a challenge that they may have faced before and somebody says, what if we tried this this time? And I love the risk tolerance that goes along with trying something new in a leadership context because like any kind of experimentation, any kind of innovation, you know, there is a risk doing something differently because it, it may fail and it may make a new problem, but it might actually work better. So I don't believe in blind risk taken. I mean, I think you have to consider what will happen if it does fail. What's the backup plan? But one of the greatest joys I've had in being a leader is when I have faced very difficult problems to try entirely new ways of solving that problem that are counterintuitive. But yeah, I think mixing it up, it makes for better leaders. Like experimentation makes for better anything.