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 safety 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
- Micromanage
- 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
