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When You Shut Down Ideas Too Quickly, Your Best Innovators Take Their Creativity Elsewhere

Leaders who don’t create an environment where people feel safe and excited to share ideas will quickly be surrounded by people who don’t speak, and who will eventually leave. In the fast-paced world of business, the ability to innovate is not just a luxury; it’s a necessity for survival and growth. However, innovation doesn’t thrive in a vacuum. It requires a nurturing environment where ideas are welcomed and explored. Unfortunately, many organizations unknowingly stifle this creative spirit, leading to a significant loss: their best innovators taking their creativity elsewhere.

5 Ways Leaders Can Drive Innovation In Their Business

When it happens, innovation isn’t an accident. Why? Because of leadership. Leadership is another code word for innovation. Sure, teams innovate; they do the work. But, leaders drive and enable people to do their best work. Show me an innovative organization and I’ll show you a great leader behind it that created a culture that enables it to outperform consistently.

Take These 5 Steps To Encourage Team Members to Be Innovative When Their Ideas Are Not Successful

Innovation is the opposite of predictable, it’s messy. It almost never works out as planned and it takes a lot out of people. In most organizations a failed idea means getting fired. Which means people won’t be proactive and contribute ideas because of fear of retaliation. Still, leaders need to encourage and support it. How?

To Drive Innovation Don’t Just Invite Ideas — Be Open To Change

To Drive Innovation Don’t Just Invite Ideas — Be Open To Change

Every organization, of any size, has a culture. Whether it was defined at the start or it wasn’t; it has one. Congratulations if you took the time to define it at the start, because most founders don’t take the time to do it and find themselves defining one when they’ve been in business for many years.

We Need To Think About Failure Differently To Drive Innovation

Mistakes aren’t a necessary evil. They aren’t evil at all. They are an inevitable consequence of doing something new

Yesterday I gave a talk to Foxconn employees and Directors about culture and how it drives innovation. A good way to frame culture is like this: what you reward and what you punish.

With that said, turn your attention to the following tweet:

Your ability to recover from failure fast is just a important as your ability to fail fast

What do all creative cultures have in common? The common answer is that in order to figure out which ideas will work, people move fast to implement those ideas. I’d argue that more important than that is the ability to recover from failure just as fast: