GoodWordEditing.com (Marcus Goodyear): Don’t Conform To Platitudes against Conformity. I love this post. It ties in with some things I have written in the past about polarity management.
I hope I know L.L. well enough to pick on her in my title. I love her post about conformity.
Here’s a different thought. (Does that make me a non-conformist?)
I heard this on a podcast from Stanford. (Either I’m a geek or these podcasts are so good everyone should buy an Ipod just to hear them. Or maybe both.) Robert Sutton talks about creativity and innovation. And he talks about the importance of conformity. Let me distill those thoughts down to two platitudes (but don’t conform to them!):
Creativity leads to growth, but tends to be unstable.
Conformity provides stabilization, but can lead to stagnation. …
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