What do your innovators want? What do they need from you?
Earlier this month, we invited the HBR community on Twitter to share their personal insights into what they need to be at their most innovative. "What can your organizations do to help you?" we asked. "If you tell us, we will pass your comments on." A spirited conversation followed, one whose very richness demonstrates just what a challenge fostering innovation really is.
Innovators are, almost by definition, a diverse lot, and our discussion made it clear that different people need different things to be innovative, some of which are organizational, others personal.
"I need to get out of my mind and put pen on paper," said one.
"I need to understand my limitations to innovate," said another, adding "Really believing I don't know works for me. I see new angles this way."
To read the full, original article click on this link: What Your Innovators Want You to Know - Andrea Ovans - Our Editors - Harvard Business Review
