One mistake I’ve seen entrepreneurs, and leaders of established businesses, make is to adopt practices from other companies without thinking through how those practices fit withing their existing strategy and culture.
Tag Archives: Innovation
The Best Way To Fight Through The Fear And Anxiety Of Failure
You and I both know people who get paralyzed by the unknown. I have friends and family members who are so stuck in their comfort zone that they don’t even think about it. I also know people who like posting quotes on Facebook and Twitter about living outside their comfort zone, yet they don’t practice what they preach.
New Research Suggests That Humans Struggle With Subtractive Thinking
Subtraction is the simplest, most common path to innovation. Whether it’s products, services or writing, simplifying is one of the greatest abilities of innovators. Do only certain people hold a monopoly on this very valuable skill? It seems so. New research suggests that humans struggle with subtractive thinking.
This Explains Why Your Organization Is Not As Innovative As You Want It To Be
The quest for innovation, transforming your business, overwhelms most organizations. Most organizations just don’t know where to start, or worse they believe they’re doing it right. While there’s no 3 step recipe that anyone can follow to innovate, there are principles that make it more certain that an organization is on the right path to innovation.
From Fear of Failure To Freedom
Innovation has many enemies, chief among them is fear of failure. Many organizations fail because they miss the future, unable to adapt to changing conditions. They didn’t try. And when they did it was too late. All because of fear of failure, fear of being first, fear of taking risks, fear of taking a chance.
Want To Create A Workplace For Innovators? Avoid Doing This
in Innovation, Leadership
Last week there was a change in the Presidency of the United States of America. Trump is out, Biden is in. There are many challenges President Biden is up against, the most pressing one is taming the current pandemic which has taken over 400,000 american lives.
Walking The Innovation Talk
An organization’s culture is the driving force behind innovation. You can have the best minds on your team, but nothing will happen if the environment doesn’t let them bring out their full potential. It’s an environment that values and encourages creativity, risk taking, experimentation, learning. Innovation doesn’t happen without experimentation, which means making mistakes.