Innovation
is the heartbeat of staying alive.
Innovation is the predictor of our future. In a rapidly changing world, we find ways to
innovate or we often become yesterday’s news, and that usually means we can easily
get tossed aside.
Do
you remember the TV show MacGyver (1985-1992)? MacGyver was Mr. Innovator. Every episode would find him in a real fix,
and he would manage to use whatever was in front of him to make yet something
different and more useful and use that creation to remedy his situation.
Carolyn
and I are heavily into Burn Notice,
and we often comment how similar these two shows are. The characters Michael, Fe and Sam are
exceptional innovators. And they, the heroes,
always win the day.
I
have given a presentation called The
Leadership Principles of Apollo Thirteen.
In that speech we cover a great host of innovative fixes Jim Lovell and
his crew on board the spacecraft, and the team on the ground, had to effect in
order to survive the return flight back to earth.
They
found themselves innovating every step of the way until they were successful in
bringing those three men home to safety.
The
word is Innovate.
If
we search for innovative companies on Google, here are the top ten.
1. NIKE
2. MAZON
3. SQUARE
4. SPLUNK
5. FAB
6. UBER
7. SPROXIL
8. PINTEREST
9. SAFARICOM
10. TARGET
If
interested, please read the whole article.
A
favorite quote and one of my most-read blogs is this.
(September
15, 2011)
Based
on a Steve Jobs quote, that is a precise comment on one’s ability to
innovate. Tomorrow is waiting. Now let us go invent it.
Today’s
post is not about how-to innovate. I’ll
leave that to your own creativities. Our
purpose today is to highlight the need for innovation. Each person, each department and division
must work out the “how-to” on their own with their own set of parameters and by
using the expertise of each team member.
Bottom
line – your human resources is the starting point for innovation. Are you fostering an atmosphere for
exceptional innovative thoughts to be birthed?
Look
there first.
P Michael Biggs
Offering
Hope
Encouragement
Inspiration
One Word
at a Time
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