I was asked recently what to do if, after achieving a certain level of seniority in your career, you suspect you are becoming a NO to innovation within your company and/or among your staff?
As in many situations, recognizing you may be part of the problem is a HUGE first step. If you don’t think it’s a major issue yet, here are some strategies you can use to destabilize your experience and force you and those around you to contribute with more innovative perspectives and to grow in new ways:
- Tear Apart What You’ve Done in the Past - Go back to a seeming successful past project and really tear it apart, looking for even subtle flaws you could improve upon next time. Doing this can be an important input into forcing you to raise some personal performance standards which may have naturally softened over the years.
- Make It Harder on Yourself – When you’re experienced, it’s a lot easier to know what all the steps are on a project, along with all the necessary resources. Push yourself to perform differently by consciously and dramatically reducing resources available for a project. Shorten the time, reduce the size of the team deployed on it, or rule out use of certain tools you’d usually fall back on for routine success. With a different resource set, you’re going to have to think of innovative strategies to get an effort completed.
To read the full, original article click on this link: 3 Ways to Be Innovative When You’re Very Experienced | Strategy Consulting and Strategic Planning
Author: Mike Brown
