Monthly Archives: April 2010

Place Your Bets

2017-04-10T21:47:13-06:00By |Innovation Behavior, Innovation Strategies, Uncategorized|

With innovation, the odds favor the gambler. The longer you play, the more likely you are to win. Each calculated risk that fails, if carefully evaluated and used to learn, brings us closer to a successful solution, by teaching us what won’t work and hinting at what does. It’s those who stop gambling, who fail to experiment long enough and often enough, who give up too soon, who lose.

Hiring Innovation

2017-04-10T21:47:13-06:00By |Innovation Behavior, Innovation Strategies, Personal Innovation Skills, Uncategorized|

Anyone can become a successful innovator, but some of us are more predisposed to creative change than others. Ironically, companies tend to stack the deck against their own innovation efforts by predominantly hiring those who are most conformist and most competent at doing what’s already being done, rather than those who embrace new ideas.

Asking Questions

2010-04-12T07:00:30-06:00By |Innovation Behavior, Personal Innovation Skills, Uncategorized|

In science, there’s always another question. No matter how many questions a good researcher answers, or how much data is gathered, there are always more things to ask. In fact, there seems to be a geometric relationship between answers and questions, with each answer prompting multiple new questions. Richer, more subtle, more complex questions. Sometimes [...]

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