We all know that business success is dependent on developing and executing new ideas. Unfortunately, no matter how many great ideas you have, most of them do not happen. They get lost in the process of business, discussion, impatience and fear. The majority of us turn on ourselves during the “idea” to “execution” phase, we become our own worst enemies. Combine this with a cororpoation of like minded souls, innovation, or even making ideas happen becomes harder and harder and rarely exists. The key to innovation and making ideas happen is to master your own natural tendencies.
Ideas do not happen in isolation, they rely on thousands of moving parts, community, discipline, organisation, foresight and most of all leadership.
Helen Walters, from Fast Co Design has written an important piece highlighting Ryan Jacoby’s 7 Deadly sins of innovation from his recent NYU/Poly talk. Here they are:
1: Thinking the answer is in here, rather than out there
“We all get chained to our desks and caught up in email,” he said. “But the last time I looked, no innovation answers were coming over my Blackberry.” You have to get outside of the office, outside of the conference room and be open to innovation answers from unexpected places. Ryan makes h
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Author: Ben Rennie
