Podcast: Overcoming Innovation Block and How To Prevent Innovation
Dateline: Sunnyvale, CA
Segment 1: Overcoming Innovation Block
- Random word/picture
- Sketch/Draw
- Scan the Idea Folder
- STOP -- Let the unconscious take-over
- Read/Watch/Do Something Different -- Break the "habit"
- Look at history
Segment 2: How To Prevent Innovation
- Hire employees looking for safty in their roles
- Hire incompetent employees
- Keep salaries below the 75th percentile
- Read The Ten Faces of Innovation and keep them out of your organization
- Treat Employees like garbage
- Reward conservative and marginal successes
- Micomanage
- Only create customer-requested features
- Make performance reviews easy
- Build a kingdom
If you want to ignite innovation, ignite the creativity of you people -- then have the courage to do the opposite of these rules.
Original Blog Post at tynerblain.com
Segment 3: Killer Question Of The Week
Segment 4: Closing Thoughts
"Creating without claiming, Doing without taking credit, Guiding without interfering. This is Primal Virtue." Lao-tsu
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Comments
Phil, thanks so much for covering our innovation tips post in your podcast! As much as I enjoyed writing the list, it is much more provoking to hear it being interpreted. I also really enjoyed the tips for uncovering "idea triggers" in different media. Good 'cast.
Posted by: Scott Sehlhorst | June 26, 2006 09:49 AM
Thanks .... Keep the content coming.
Posted by: Phil McKinney | July 2, 2006 06:30 PM