Not only is addiction a poor catalyst for creativity — the sometimes brilliant works of drug addicts and alcoholics are achieved in spite of their demons — but it turns out to be a less-than-satisfying subject.
On the whole it works, although highly educated business-school graduates tend to resent Andersen's boot-camp approach to training.But McKinsey and Andersen also share something less enviable than their success: their poor track record in creativity.
How, possibly, could Chelsea be so feeble when the prize was a final against the 10th-placed side from League Two? Benítez's men had a lot of the ball, particularly in the first half, but their creativity was poor and their momentum never built.
They lead to poor choices, lack of creativity and the expectation of a negative outcome.
The national effort needs to partner with grassroots organizations that are on the ground, working with and listening to the needs and creativity of poor and middle class Americans who are hurting financially and emotionally and who feel isolated and unheard.
When Mondrian arrived in New York during World War II, he was 70 years old and in poor health, yet his creativity reached a new height before his death of pneumonia in 1944.
"This is a demonstration of a way forward for an innovation business model," he says, which could help unleash creativity in poorer countries.
What's needed is a re-connection with the things people say are most important to them: friends and family, our communities, beautiful places, the poor or disadvantaged, freedom and creativity.
The old class distinction between those who owned capital and those forced to sell their labour-power had been superseded by a new division: those blessed with creativity and those poor unfortunates without, who were doomed to "take care of [the creatives] and do their chores".
From Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers in the 1950s to NWA in the late 80s and early 90s right down to Drake and Nicki Minaj today, the sound, allure and creativity of desperately poor, young, inner-city people has always been a magnet for people such as the 19-year-old George Osborne – the young, well-educated and wealthy.
