So far, in this podcast, we’ve discussed the possibilities of ideas that if created would improve the world. On this episode we flip the script, rather than asking if a new idea is a good one, we ask whether it’d be better if some of the ideas we cling to were killed off.
All good ideas must die (so that great ideas might live). With that said, similar to how you kill stupid rules to innovate, what ideas, if eliminated, would improve our life?…
in Innovation, Leadership
Pretty much every “state of corporate innovation” report confirms what we already know about corporate innovation:
Imaginatik’s most recent state of innovation 2015 report isn’t that different.
There is nothing inherently wrong with doing these reports, the problem is that most nothing changes from one report to another. …
No matter what you do for a living, should you do the best work possible? An interesting article by Nick Bilton on taking pride of ones work caught my attention:…
When’s the last time you made yourself purposely uncomfortable?
It’s something to think about. When our natural instinct is to constantly seek out comfort…
We are the main obstacle to progress because we continually fail to question everything, including our ideas; it’s really that simple. There is a constant strong force at play, the status-quo bias, that impedes us from getting out of our own way and instead opting to stick with the tried and true. …
The leader of the future is very different than the one we are used to talking about. How so? Consider three things:
in Innovation, Leadership
Conventional leadership won’t get you innovation. How so?
A myth that is commonly associated with innovators like Steve Jobs is that their respective companies achieved extraordinary success because of them. Wrong. Steve Jobs didn’t do everything himself, he’s even said so publicly that “ideas trump hierarchy” at Apple.…
Most companies, as well as individuals, suck at innovation because they suck at change. Why? First and foremost, succeeding at change requires open mindedness because if you aren’t open to new ideas how can you expect others to be open to yours. …