REMOVING BARRIERS TO INNOVATION
Organizations are not designed to innovate. It’s against their nature. Organizations are designed to produce quality results, eliminate variables, and follow procedures. Innovation takes change. Change in thinking and habit. A highly interactive, collaborative environment initially feels awkward, slow and chaotic...until it unlocks innovative ideas.
Innovation requires collaborative thinking...a journey of learning. Learning how to work differently. Learning how to explore the tension of difference. Learning how to think together.
Learning how to create the climate where collaboration and innovation can flourish.
Leaders need to set the stage and create the climate for innovation. They need to talk and model collaborative thinking…changing the rules of habit.