He was a harsh critic of the assembly-line system of production that then dominated the manufacturing sector partly because assembly lines moved at the speed of the slowest and partly because they failed to engage the creativity of individual workers.
That has positive effects for both, with startups benefiting from the experience of large corporations, and large companies gaining the spontaneity and creativity of entrepreneurial workers.
Furthermore, this type of organization tends to invite exploitation and underestimate the potential of the employees, as creativity of the workers is brushed aside, in favour of strict adherence to rules, regulations and procedures.
Our programme to encourage public sector mutual spin-outs is one example of how we can harness the experience and creativity of public sector workers to do things better and more efficiently.
The result, she fears, is the corrosion not only of citizenship but also of workers' creativity and judgment.
In middle work, a workflow platform creates standardized units of work, while a marketplace of human labor provides pools of workers who bring creativity and judgment to the tasks at hand.
Creativity consistently ranks among the most sought-after and valued characteristics of workers today.
The second concerns how forms of worker creativity, knowing and improvisation can be acknowledged, made visible and nurtured through the use of digital video in the construction industry (Pink et al. forthcoming).
Teresa Amabile of Harvard Business School, who has been conducting a huge study of work and creativity, reports that workers are generally more creative on low-pressure days than on high-pressure days when they are confronted with a flurry of unpredictable demands.
"The objective as always is to maximise prosperity, maximise employment, to build on the inherent creativity of businesses... It's about helping workers to go from good jobs to better jobs".
