tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6216289345647030198.post5311006646867668958..comments2011-08-31T11:17:41.601-04:00Comments on 1001 Words: Why I love innovationAdamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08105348186670815368noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6216289345647030198.post-15129773800924889412009-11-15T10:07:00.736-05:002009-11-15T10:07:00.736-05:00Marci: Thanks so much for your comment. I totally ...Marci: Thanks so much for your comment. I totally agree. I tend to use the word "innovation" not just to describe the outputs but to describe the behaviors - inclusive of creativity - that lead to those outputs.<br /><br />I know the innovation industry prefers to use the term "innovation" to describe business results. I think they do that in order to justify their existence to the bean counters. To tell them that it's all about the money and not just goofiness. I'm OK with that. But for me, I'm not afraid of using the term more broadly.<br /><br />It is the wonderful human mind, spirit, heart and soul that has given us so many of the wonderful things we now enjoy - including our basic scientific understanding of our world. And while certainly some of that was produced with the profit motive front and center, I believe most of it was just people inspired to seek out the truth and bring it to bear on the world.<br /><br />This is what we need to do in business as well. Just get out of the damn way. Let people be people. Give them the resources they need. And let the magic happen.Adamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08105348186670815368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6216289345647030198.post-71106078383529672622009-11-14T10:42:18.930-05:002009-11-14T10:42:18.930-05:00Adam - love how you phrase it - innovation reflect...Adam - love how you phrase it - <i>innovation reflects the natural state of the human soul</i>. Totally agree, and I'm wondering if you'd be open to include creativity in your musings.<br /><br />It may be a chicken and egg thing, still, wondering how you feel about creativity, thought of a new ideas and new decisions, preceding innovation, currently considered as the new ideas being put into action. Which of course, then trigger inspiration for other new ideas, and so on.<br /><br />Totally agree that when creativity is given space in organizations it allows for greater productivity. There's research and case studies that support it.<br /><br />Organizations that celebrate World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 - 21 report that when the staff, employees, associates, etc are engaged in learning about ways to tap their natural energies to unleash the power of their creative imagination, generate new ideas and make new decisions, through workshops, activities, lectures, contests, etc., the their spirits are renewed, they emerge refreshed and the quality of work that follows is higher, more focused and inspired beyond the drudgery of the same-old-same-old day to day thinking and acting. <br /><br />What's special about World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 - 21 is that the purpose is to celebrate creativity and innovation and not to necessarily tie it directly to a business outcome; in a phrase fun, and not just for fun because we know with the pause and refresh, results to accrue shortly after. It's how the brain has been shown to work.<br /><br />Innovation is a good thing, as you say; it keeps the bean counters happy. To me what's really the essence is enabling the human spirit space and room to express, explore, discover, use curiosity, wonder, as a necessary part of the innovation process. Before the rubber can hit the road (innovation), we need a road, and we need the rubber (creativity).marcisegalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18313174446603388686noreply@blogger.com