Halley’s talking about creativity and, in particular, "The Creative Leader". How do you identify the creative leader? How do you compensate the creative leader? Are you creating an atmosphere of fun for the culture of your time? Here are some tips from the audience and the discussion overall:
(2) Take them all to lunch, away from the office, build trust by opening up a channel.
(3) Keep teams small (6-8 people) (no larger than you can feed with 2 pizzas) (Werner Vogels comment). Buzz says that there was a Fortune article reporting a recent study that said the optimum team size is 4.6. (Query: how do you get a .6 of a person? Perhaps that's a part-time employee?)
(4) Listen for whining. When they whine, they’ve lost interest. Swearing is OK, but whining is not.
(5) Pandora CTO has 3 suggestions: (a) be the first to laugh at yourself; (b) keep telling your developers what the deadline dates are (even though this sounds like a kindergarten teacher; (c) don’t assume that everyone is looking forward to a break – be leery of “giving them a break for awhile” (instead, give them directions and something valuable to work on).
Halley provided some book and reading recommendations. The audience offered some too. Here's some of the recommended titles:
Next up is the dude behind FireFox...