Exploring Your Creative Genius: Episode 101
Much of last Sunday’s show was the retelling of my accident and hospital stay.
I did mention that while in the hospital I discovered Andrew Fletcher, a Scottish writer, politician, and patriot. He was born in 1653, died in 1715, and was a key figure in the negotiations between the English and Scottish Parliaments. He wanted a Union between equals and was against Scotland joining Great Britain.
I was introduced to him when I tracked down a quote attributed to him that I immediately became a fan of.
It comes from one of his books, “An Account of a Conversation concerning a right regulation of Governments for the common good of Mankind” (1703). He insisted he didn’t speak the words but…
“I knew a very wise gentleman who believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.”
I mentioned during the show that after replacing ballads with stories, this is another way to express one of Creative Populism’s goals: to provide that stories that will help folks achieve the best most useful perspectiveS on the unknowable future while influencing political agendas.
I experienced a version of this dynamic—that a strong common core understanding among us about what’s important in our lives will influence or perhaps shape subsequent rule making positively.
I headed up Providence Journal Cellular back in the 80’s, when cellular service was still a local market business with two service providers in each metro area. As we launched over a dozen new cellular companies throughout the Southeast, like Charleston and Savannah, Augusta and Fayetteville, we identified those aspects of the stories we’d been creating at our first company, Cellular One of the Triangle, that were fundamental principles to our success.
We then helped local managers understand the strategic significance of those principles, helped them shape their versions of the stories that delivered and reinforced those principles, and as long as they integrated those stories into the company’s culture the local managers had huge leeway to determine the local rules that would be best for their organization.
“Exploring Your Creative Genius” takes an expansive view on what it means to be creative and entrepreneurial in an ongoing conversation led by Carl Nordgren — entrepreneur, novelist, and lifelong student with decades of experience growing his own creative capacity and assisting others to do the same in exciting new ways!
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