- Social Networks Will Change Product Innovation – HBR
- Three Steps for Inventing the Future by @timkastelle
- Three Questions that Will Kill Innovation – HBR
- Big Innovations Question the Status Quo. How Do You Ask the Right Questions? by @glimmerguy
- How IBM fosters internal experiments with social software – Technology Review
- Can imagination be taught? – Stanford d.School
- The Positive Power of Failure via @ralph_ohr
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Being creative has more to do with being fearless than intelligent
Being creative has more to do with being fearless than intelligent.
Fearlessness gives birth to new knowledge. It’s only by taking the unknown path, the road less traveled that you’ll find and create new knowledge. Don’t be afraid to be wrong, what’s wrong is not being open to new ideas, to change, to stumbling onto unfamiliar situations to being the best you can be.
I propose we cultivate fearless curiosity to explore our own potential. With that I leave you with a quote from someone who knows a little bit of being fearless:
“The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves. They want to be 50 Cent or someone else. They do what everyone else does even if it doesn’t fit where and who they are. But you get nowhere that way; your energy is weak and no one pays attention to you. You’re running away from the one thing that you own – what makes you different.”
– 50 Cent
Innovation posts of the week: Organizational Innovation
- The secret sauce of innovation – PARC blog via @ariegoldshlager
- Promote Failure, Fail Forward by @lindegaard
- Innovation Democracy: W.L. Gore’s Original Management Model
- Organizational Innovation via @dscofield
- Designing Innovative Services Begins with Four Questions – HBR
- Kevin Kelly and Steven Johnson on Where Ideas Come From – Wired
- Innovate Through Connected Adjacencies by @skap5
- Cash Prizes for Innovation Are Surging – WSJ.com
- Is Your Industry Ripe for Disruption? by @sviokla
- The Origins of Good Ideas – WSJ.com
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- Good Ideas Come From Sharing, Random Collisions And Openness, Not Hoarding And Bursts Of Inspiration (techdirt.com)
- “Ideas are Networks” (taylordavidson.com)
- David Gurteen: The Liquid Network: Where Good Ideas Come From (elsua.net)
- Where Do Good Ideas Come From: A Q&A With Steven Johnson (freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)
Innovation posts of the week: Do companies need less innovation?
- Do companies need less innovation? by @ralph_ohr
- Write Your Own Map by @timkastelle
- Why Reward Failure?
- No Strategy – No Innovation via @innovate
- Five Reasons You Don’t Have the Time to Delay Innovation by @jamestodhunter
- Innovation does not start with idea generation by @ovoinnovation
- Redefining Failure by @thisissethsblog
- The New Definition of Innovation by @ingenesist
Want more? You can find more innovation posts in my Delicious bookmarks account, all good stuff!
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- The Definition Of Innovation Must Change (relationship-economy.com)
- Measuring Innovation in Education (kauffman.org)
- Harvard Business: Innovation: Who Else Is Doing It? (blogs.hbr.org)
- 25 Definitions of Innovation (cloudave.com)
Innovation posts of the week: Innovation Economics
Great collection of reads this week which I encourage you to read while also following these smart people on Twitter.
- Innovation Economics by @elldir
- Why Big Companies Almost Never Notice Disruptive Innovation | Techdirt
- Why Waiting Until A New Business Model Is Proven Doesn’t Work | Techdirt
- How to become a better innovator by @ovoinnovation
- Six Characteristics of Highly Effective Change Leaders via @innovate
- Learning from nature’s design via @philmccreight
- Great Reads on Failure: Help Build a Collection of Insights by @lindegaard
- To Create the Future, See Hidden Patterns (and Challenge Them) via @ralph_ohr by @mitchditkoff
- With Innovation, You Don’t Get Points for Difficulty – HBR
- Oslo Innovation Clinic Offers Treatment for Ideas – HBR
- How to Be an Ideas Factory: Loosen Your Grip on Your Creations – BNET
- Innovating When You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know: The View from PARC via @ariegoldshlager
- Ten “worst practices” for gaining benefits from Innovation by @rgmcgrath
Want more? You can find more innovation posts in my Delicious bookmarks account, all good stuff!
Top 20 Innovation posts of the week: Smartfailing
Thanks to all the people who share links there was lots of content this week so the list ended up being longer than usual, all worth reading.
- Smartfailing – a new concept for learning through failure by @lindegaard
- Innovate, Yes, but Make It Practical – NY Times
- Sometimes Success Begins at Failure — HBS Working Knowledge via @ariegoldshlager
- Survey Reveals Corporations With Centralized Innovation Departments More Likely to Have Focused Efforts via @ralph_ohr
- Ideas are far more glamorous compared to the actual execution: Vijay Govindarajan via @ralph_ohr
- The efficient use of ideas by @ovoinnovation
- Managers who understand how artists work will have a distinct advantage via @philmccreight
- Idea Deficit Disorder – Stopping the Epidemic by @wallybock
- Innovation ‘ s Biggest Paradox
- Try Something New: Experiments Can Lead to Success by @neilpatel
- Innovators field guide to finding unmet customer needs
- Quarterly Earnings Kill People-Based Innovation… – Fast Company
- The Idea or The Execution? Here’s What The Greatest Minds in Tech Say
- Beyond Stage-Gate: A new approach for innovation by @Brioneja
- Six Secrets to Creating a Culture of Innovation – HBR
- Innovation & the Status Quo: The perils of groupthink, stereotyping and system justification by @DrewCM
- Getting Down to the Business of Creativity — HBS Working Knowledge
- Creativity Matters by @johnmaeda
- True Leaders Are Also Managers by @work_matters
- ‘Ideacide’ (or 14 Ways to Kill Creativity) – OPEN Forum
Why some people tolerate failure more than others
There are a number of reasons why I liked the Knowing vs. Learning Business Week article by G. Michael Maddock and Raphael Louis Vitón. Not only are they right, but they also touch on a very important topic: The reason why some people tolerate failure more than others.
If you’ve read Carol Dweck’s book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success then you know what I’m talking about. Check it out…
Read the following four sentences and write down whether you agree or disagree with each of them:
- You are a certain kind of person, and there is not much that can be done to really change that.
- No matter what kind of person you are, you can always change substantially.
- You can do things differently, but the important parts of who you are can’t really be changed.
- You can always change basic things about the kind of person you are.
If you agree with items 1 and 3, you’re someone who has a ’fixed mindset’. If you agreed with items 2 and 4, you tend to have a ‘growth mindset’.
What does this mean?
People with a fixed mindset believe that their abilities are basically static whereas people with a growth mindset believe abilities are like muscles that can be built up with practice. With a growth mindset you tend to accept more challenges despite the risk of failure, therefore if you are of a growth mindset you seek to get better all the time; which usually means learning from mistakes.
What does this have to do with innovation?
As the authors of the article say, fear of failure makes growing, getting smarter, and becoming a learning organization all but impossible. So if we are to cultivate ‘innovativeness’ in our organizations we must first instill the growth mindset in our team and then work to change how we perceive failure by coming to a collective understanding that failure will happen along the way of any new initiative we pursue.
As Carol Dweck says: People will persevere only if they perceive failure as learning rather than as failing.
Growth vs. Fixed, which one are you?