Want to know two secrets about innovation? The first insider secret on management innovation (and its sibling creativity) is that there is “no magic prescription” to obtain these skills. Instead, they require subtle and simple changes in our every day way of thinking and behaving. The second insider secret on innovation is that we all have the potential to be more innovative managers and leaders. In my blog articles, I discuss proven strategies for improving your innovation skills.
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Sometimes the best answers for solving a problem come from someone who knows a lot less than you about what you are facing. It’s an innovative problem solving strategy called lack of knowledge and it involves getting the input of a thoughtful but otherwise uninformed individual about the problem you face. They do not have [...]
We are all creative, but by the time we are three or four years old someone has knocked creativity out of us. Some people shut up the kids who start to tell stories. Kids dance in their cribs, but someone will insist they sit still. By the time the creative people are ten or twelve, [...]
It’s easy to come up with new ideas. The hard part is letting go of something that worked for you two years ago, but which is no longer useful. –Roger Von Oech
Are you tired of being told to think out-of-the-box whenever you face a management or leadership challenge? Has the nine-dot exercise lost its impact on you? Are you ready to scream about all of this innovative and creative thinking and problem solving stuff? I understand your frustration. Reinvigorated management and leadership principles often fall prey [...]
Strategic questioning is a powerful tool for leadership, management, and coaching. It is also very useful for improving innovation and creativity in the workplace. Crafting the right strategic questions can involve some work particularly for solving leadership, management, or coaching problems. It turns out with innovation and creativity however that three of the most powerful [...]
If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn’t thinking! –General George Patton The quickest way for a manager or leader to stifle innovative and creative thinking is for the leader to discourage the team from disagreeing with each other. The other quick method for stifling breakthrough thinking is for the leader to always insist that “things [...]
There is something about setting goals that helps to focus organizational efforts. When we set realistic and challenging goals for ourselves and others, we can often get the results we need. Goal setting has a place in generating innovative and creative solutions in the workplace as well. Using a tool called Idea Quota, we can [...]
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