TALKS: How to Lead When You Don’t Know What You’re Doing - 99U

You shouldn’t try to design your career

Tea Uglow opened her talk by asking “what is creative leadership?” and answered it in a way that let us breathe out and relax with “…I really don’t know”. This set the tone for an honest and inspiring talk from the "experimental person in charge” of Google’s Creative Lab. She shared her personal story of starting at Google 12 years ago, and going from a temp making PowerPoint slides to creative director, and from Tom to Tea. In her talk, Tea stressed that as creativity is lateral, we need to give ourselves space to come up with ideas that form our own creative journeys freely. Rather than setting out a five year plan, you shouldn’t try to design your career as “we don’t know where that’s going, and that’s fine”.

 :: https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/adobe-99u-round-up-events-160518

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