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The necessity of deviance

The necessity of deviance

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The necessity of deviance

(upbeat music) - Here's a really strange reality. We love mavericks, but in everyday organizational life, well we work pretty hard to shun them and to silence them. You see, it's one of the oldest ironies in organizational life. We need order out of chaos. We need structure so we make rules. We have meetings, we have policies and methodologies and they do help us. But slowly, they start killing us and make work very, very difficult. Boring, painful and completely irrelevant. So meet the organizational deviant. I mean you can call them what you want. The deviant, the maverick, the change agent. Square peg round hole. They're people who understand the need to try new things, the need to push forward quickly. The need to really not think as much about red tape, but instead, how sometimes we have to work around red tape. So my advice to you. Now when you're hiring people, you're going to be looking for a large diversity of folks, most of whom will be motivated, educated, awesome, rule…

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