Ideas To Go

Brian Henson, Chairman of the Jim Henson Company, shares lessons he learned from his father. “I try to emulate his approach of really get the most out of people by allowing them to experiment and certainly allowing people to make mistakes…people need to be able to be taking risks and if it turns out to be a mistake—if it turns out not to have been the right choice—that should be applauded, you know, by everybody, and it will come up with another plan. But if everybody’s trying to stay safe, then you never really create something new and different and surprising.”