Sachi Gerlitz
Executive Chairman, Ness Technologies
The Relationship between Creativity and Management
In my worldview competition is everything.
It shapes the landscape in which individuals, firms and organizations operate in their attempt to differentiate themselves from others and be the first to cross the finishing line.
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Dr. Arye Karmon
President, The Israeli Democracy Institute
Connecting Disparate Worlds
I am a mission driven person.
My career focuses on enhancing the vision of the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI): Act through research, dialogue and public entrepreneurship, substantiate an exemplary democracy in Israel.
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Ika Abravanel
Group EVP, Human Resources & Chief Integration Officer, Teva
Painting is a kind of meditation. It comes from a very pure, authentic and sometimes hidden and incomprehensible place.
You usually start when you have some kind of an idea. There is even a dimension of planning, because imagination evokes an image, sometimes even a detailed one, but the outcome never resembles the plan because the process develops...
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Michel Ben Weiss
CEO, Keter Plastic (IPG)
It seems that the management world is currently seeking more diverse managers – people with a broader and deeper outlook on life, beyond the dry, cold and alienated business world.
I believe that art is complementary to management, as it facilitates this required innovative outlook.
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Jonathan Levy
Founder at Synegrity, Israel
I believe one cannot be a manger and a leader without taking real interest in people. As a CEO, you have to understand what motivates employees in order to commit them to a future you delineate and all create together.
Partnership, fairness, directness and willingness to learn – on both a personal and corporate level – tighten relations between all members of the organization for the sake of its customers.
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Oshik Feler
VP Operations, COO, The Israeli Democracy Institute
Perhaps paradoxically, the creativity and creation that most impress me are simplest and seemingly most trivial, the things anyone could have seen and yet just one person noticed – it takes just one look to view things differently, to see what others do not.
What is creative work made of, after all? Often its raw materials are widely available and familiar. Beauty results from the initial gaze, from the unique connection and the "other" perspective.
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Arik Regev
former CEO, G4S Israel
Creativity and Management
The rooster is the only animal in nature that has the special intuition or insight enabling it to tell the difference between day and night, irrespective of its physical location and regardless of the changing weather, seasons, etc.
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