My nine favourite innovation sayings & actions
November 28, 2008
Having researched and worked in the new ideas and innovation space for the past ten years I have listed below my nine favourite innovation sayings:
- Innovation is one of our top 3 priorities
- It is incredibly important to our success
- It is one of our 5 core values
- It is one of our most important leadership capabilities
- It drives everything we do
- We all agree that it is our future
- Our employees want to be more innovative
- We know we are falling behind in innovation
- Our head office wants us to be more innovative
Listed below are my nine favourite innovation actions from leaders:
- We will get to it (innovation) next week
- We don’t have any time just at the moment
- Our budgets are stretched
- When our sales figures are better than watch us go
- Next quarter will be a more receptive time to introduce innovation
- We are not quite ready for this
- I want everyone else to be innovative (as long as i do not have to)
- I am all for it but not right now
- I am just about to get to it
Can you see the slight inconsistency? No wonder smart, younger, creative people in particular become frustrated and feel that the entire innovation thing is just another fad.
The right time for innovation is now! Right now, in this very moment. A painter has to paint, a writer has to type the words-right now.
Do you have any favourite sayings or actions from your leader?
Ken Hudson
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Treat people as if they are valuable to the organization and they will be valuable to the organization. They come to work motivated and innovative, but because of how they are treated they soon become demotivated and demoralized. In that state, their natural capacities to create, innovate and be productive are lost to the organization. Remove the demotivators and their capabilities will once more be used on their work.
The most likely major demotivator is use of the traditional top-down command and control approach to managing employees. Get rid of that and adopt its opposite, that of bottom-up, and suddenly innovation will go through the roof as will their morale. In my 30+ years of managing people, I proved that to be true.
Best regards, Ben
Ben,
Wise words. I agree with everything you say.
Thanks for the comment.
ken