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В продолжении темы о универсальности проблем менеджмента и касательно недавнего поста про загнувшуюся российскую полнометражку, несколько цитат из очередного поста про менеджмент в блоге JOHN K

You need to keep a crew going for awhile to see if they learn and get better.
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HAVE ONLY ONE EXECUTIVE - A CAPITALIST WHO WANTS TO SUCCEED
Looney Tunes had the best production system in history. The one most guaranteed for success. There was only 1 executive - Leon Schlesinger. Leon had 2 traits that made him so successful:

1) He was greedy.
2) He liked to laugh.

If you could make him laugh, then he was smart enough to know that the audience would laugh too. The more you kept him laughing, the more time off he could take to go to the racetrack and spend all the money you made for him.

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Today's executives don't want to make any money for their companies because they don't own the company. So instead, they like to SPEND money - like water! They hire more executives who all get involved in interrupting the creative process. A bunch of hippie communists who can't make decisions so want to spread the blame amongst other equally uncertain slobs.
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Today's execs seem to think ideas exist in a vacuum. That an idea is either a "good idea" or a "bad idea", so they go through young cartoonists like crazy trying to find the one who has the latest good idea, rather than developing talent and a whole studio system that allows people to gain experience, work together and try new things on an ongoing basis, the whole time improving their skills without interference from amateurs.

...Now of course they want the next Sponge Bob "but not so weird". So why don't they get the Sponge Bob crew to do it?

Because that would make too much common sense. Get other people with no or little experience to imitate it superficially, then apply market voodoo to it and make the same mistakes over and over again and watch the quality and originality get filtered out year by year till we end up with intensely simplified formulaic copies of what was once alive, exciting and evolving.

Of course now the question in everybody's mind is probably:

Where do you get all around experience in each department today?
Since most of the essential work is done overseaes...