{"id":6003,"date":"2013-05-01T19:32:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T19:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=6003"},"modified":"2013-05-01T20:55:58","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T20:55:58","slug":"a-lot-of-emotion-a-lot-of-stroking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/01\/a-lot-of-emotion-a-lot-of-stroking\/","title":{"rendered":"a lot of emotion, a lot of stroking"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>&#8220;Every time I walk in her door, she reads my mind in three seconds. I think she knew I was pregnant before I did,\u201d says Ashley Sargent Price, who does art direction for J.Crew\u2019s catalogs and website. \u201cShe knows how to make you feel appreciated, even if you need to be redirected.\u201d The skill is an essential one for getting the best out of designers, who, Lyons holds, don\u2019t operate by the same rules as other people in business. \u201cManaging creative people\u2014not so easy,\u201d she says. \u201cA lot of emotion, a lot of stroking. Some people need tough love. Some people need a lot of love.\u201d Above all is the challenge of managing in a subjective realm. \u201cThere\u2019s no right or wrong answer,\u201d says Lyons. \u201cWhen someone creates something and puts it in front of you, that thing came from inside of them, and if you make them feel bad, it\u2019s going to be hard to fix, because you\u2019ve actually crushed them.&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/annfriedman.com\/post\/48988226773\/every-time-i-walk-in-her-door-she-reads-my-mind\" target=\"_blank\">ann friedman<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>great article about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3007843\/creative-conversations\/how-jenna-lyons-transformed-jcrew-cult-brand\" target=\"_blank\">jenna lyons<\/a>, president of j. crew. word up. being a great boss is a total underappreciated, rare and critical skill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Every time I walk in her door, she reads my mind in three seconds. I think she knew I was pregnant before I did,\u201d says Ashley Sargent Price, who does art direction for J.Crew\u2019s catalogs and website. \u201cShe knows how to make you feel appreciated, even if you need to be redirected.\u201d The skill is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6003"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6006,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6003\/revisions\/6006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}