1.   By contrast, managers who kill creativity do so either by failing to acknowledge innovative efforts or by greeting them with skepticism.

2.   In fact, one of the most common ways managers kill creativity is by not trying to obtain the information necessary to make good connections between people and jobs.

3.   In the corporate world, creativity gets killed much more often than it gets supported.

4.   Maybe country music got too big after Garth Brooks and killed its creativity in the search for superstars instead of super talents.

5.   Nothing kills creativity faster, he said.

6.   One way to kill creativity is to micromanage, to tell people not only what they should do, but how they should do it.

7.   Organizations routinely kill creativity with fake deadlines or impossibly tight ones.

8.   Fenwick emphasises that companies must remember they cannot create and evaluate at the same time because evaluation kills creativity.