The dynamics of creativity demand passion from individuals and teams to produce brilliant work, a top-selling author told attendees today at the 2014 CompTIA Annual Member Meeting. “Don’t short circuit the creative process just to get something done,” author Todd Henry told his audience. Rather, he encouraged them to be both “productively passionate” and “fiercely curious.”
Henry led the interactive keynote session on “Passion, Collaboration and Brilliant Work” for several hundred IT industry executives and leaders at the CompTIA meeting. He is the founder of Accidental Creative, a company that helps creative people and teams generate brilliant ideas, and author of Die Empty: Unleash Your Best Work Every Day and The Accidental Creative.
Henry told the audience that their FATE determines their fate:
- Focus – Where you choose to put your attention.
- Assets – The things you have to spend on behalf of that outcome.
- Time – How to do you choose to use it?
- Energy – The emotional passion you bring to the task.
The biggest trap people fall in is mediocrity, or settling or getting “close enough,” according to Henry. It’s also very easy for people to keep going back to same actions, processes and thought patterns that they’ve used in the past and had success with.
“But habits can become ruts and that doesn't create best problem-solving,” Henry said. “We can easily fall prey to settling. Brilliance demands the discipline and the bravery to push on and not settle.”
To view Henry’s presentation from the CompTIA Annual Member meeting, visit http://www.toddhenry.com/comptia/.
Steven Ostrowski is CompTIA’s director of corporate communications.
