There is a post about Sir Ken Robinsont on Google's Think Quarterly. Here is one of key quotes highlighted.

“You want to free up the abilities of everybody to contribute ideas, because everybody has ideas, and you need to create a climate in which that will happen. The role of a creative leader is not ‘command and control’, it’s more like ‘climate control’.”

This quote is in this paragraph.

But on whose shoulders does it fall to get the balance right? Is creativity fostered from the top down? “There are some things we know about leadership which tend to inhibit creative thinking,” says Robinson. “Leaders can perpetuate problems when they try and control everything and remove the discretion of people in their organisation. What you want to do is free up the abilities of everybody to contribute ideas, because everybody has ideas, and you need to create a climate in which that will happen. The role of a creative leader is not ‘command and control’, it’s more like ‘climate control’. You create a culture.”

The coolest data centers are ones that are run by people who think this way. I am way more impressed by the people than the size of a data center or its energy efficiency. Why? Because it is easy to make a data center look pretty. And, you find out what is really going on by talking to the people.

I am trying to find the time to read Sir Ken Robinson's book.

Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative [Hardcover]