“E” getting ready–and grateful to be a kid who could think on his own.
There are no right answers, proven-out formulas, connect-the-dots kits. The current winners–think Jobs, Murdoch, Eastwood, Drudge–are those who are custom-making solutions and brilliantly implementing them.
–Jane Genova
An acceptance of complexity, of subtlety, of unclear-ness. Do you hire people who have and embrace that with open eyes, excitement and vigor? And can think hard things through? Or do you attract the “isn’t-there-a-form-for-this?” crowd? You know, the Cookie Cutter People. My problem–and yours: for more and more people in the workplace, novelty–which I view as gorgeous, sometimes elegant, and always beckoning–makes their heads explode.
There are several quality answers and solutions. Find one. It’s what comes at you every day in any workplace with work worth doing. Complexity. Ambiguity. A messy problem. A “hard” thing. More and more employees don’t like it. They can’t deal with it. They want a “form”, a template, a program.
But great work doesn’t have “forms”. Am terribly sorry about that. You will just have to think, and suffer through this, on your own. We hired you–all of you–to solve problems.