Overcoming Innovation Block and How To Prevent Innovation

Phil McKinney

26 Jun 2006 — 1 min read

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

Past Shows Studio Sessions antibodies creative block innovation block writers block

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Phil McKinney is an innovator, podcaster, author, and speaker. He is the retired CTO of HP. Phil's book, Beyond The Obvious, shares his expertise and lessons learned on innovation and creativity.

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