Then you turn around, and you say to them, ‘Okay guys, it’s yours. You’ve got the basics here, now go ahead, knock your socks off and improve on the basics.’ And that’s what they did. They came up with different ideas, different thoughts on how to improve the differ- ent events. Sometimes it’s not learning about it as much as having a feel for it,” observes Fiore.
He adds, “Our job is to help people, and, tied into that, our job is to make people happy. So it’s whatever you need to do to help them and make them happy, within reason, or past the point of reason - which is edge of the box - that’s what you do. And sometimes, it’s not a matter of encouraging the staff to think the same way.”
Fiore’s way of thinking? “To some peo- ple, my creativity may be a good thing or a bad thing. Creativity can sometimes drive less creative people nuts because they’re not sure what they’re supposed to do or how to go about doing it. But they shouldn’t be worried. You learn from every experience.”
Fiore relies on a combination of past experiences and natural creativity. “I simply tell my staff here... I make stuff up, and I do it all the time. I make stuff up, and I go, ‘all right, can this work?’”
For Fiore, sometimes it does, some- times it doesn’t, and sometimes, well, it’s a success if he can pull a gem from the rough. “I look at it this way,” he says, “It’s easier to talk someone down from being overly creative and reigning them in a little bit, rather than trying to bring someone up who is not very creative. To me, the answer is not ‘no, we can’t do that,’ it’s ‘no, we can’t do that, but we might be able to do this, this or this.’ You constantly look at how it can be done, not how it can’t be done.”
Rudder believes that creativity comes from a mix of natural instincts and expe- rience, but he again cites his team as contributing to his success. “I am not a one-person show here. I very much work collaboratively through the opera- tional team, understanding what their
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