I discovered that administration has been by tradition a very non creative career. And university forces you to accept textbooks as the ultimate truth.
But once in the street, textbooks are just not enough. I have been in need of being creative, for the lack of creativity brings a slower innovation pace of business.
I would dare to say that it is one of the most retrograde fields of knowledge among many. This is why simple ideas like Google or Amazon bring so much money.
I have learned that user friendly products and services are very tasty for customers, but unfortunately companies insist in doing things in the wrong way because administrators have square minded ideas.
You can see Accolade that released Star Control games which were game of the year, and suddenly they want a cheaper budget for more work of developers, so developers rejected the project and it was assigned to cheaper and unexperienced developers and the result was a crappy sequel.
With the first Atari company same happened. Atari was a very innovative company without working hours, people worked because they wanted, but then a corporation bought them and the square minded rules put creativity down and company broke and for some time it was thought that videogames were dead, until Nintendo came.
So the main obstacle for creativity is not administration, but some square minded people who believe that playing golf makes them good leaders.
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