|
WebWord Weblog Posting Posting Date: February 12, 2003 Creating a Culture of Ideas (technologyreview.com) -- "In short, being innovative flies in the face of what almost all parents want for their children, most CEOs want for their companies, and heads of states want for their countries. And innovative people are a pain in the ass."
Reader Comments...
1 percent of innovators are geniuses. The other 99% are fools and they annoy the hell out of us. When an innovator joins one of my project teams, you can bet I'll conspire with my other teammates to get maliciously compliant on his ass. Posted by: Rainier "McBain" Wolfcastle on February 12, 2003 09:05 AM
Problem is, creativity is overrated as well, and overpromoted by those without expertise. You need both. Creativity without expertise means you just reinvent the wheel and don't know it. Not always a bad thing, but not much value to it unless you use it to delude others into thinking you've actually created something new. Expertise without creativity means more of the same, which is definitely a good thing once you are accomplishing what you want - just watch out for creative people changing the world on you. And if you're not accomplishing what you want, then you are doomed...
Creative and innovative thinking should always be welcomed. But much depends on the *environment* or *context* we are trying to be innovative in. The challenge is finding a balance of creativity, innovation, business requirements and project timings. If you can train people to get faster and more focused at innovating within smaller chunks of time, this might be very powerful. Posted by: Daniel Szuc on February 14, 2003 12:48 AM
Home | Moving WebWord | Cool Books | Hot Web Sites
URL: http://webword.com/weblog/ ©1998-2005 by WebWord.com. All rights reserved. |