Making Your Own Space for Creativity
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Creating space in your head for creativity is an important part of innovation – I hope that these resources will help you clear that space, and do great work!
Ask Better Questions, Do More Stuff, and Think About Maps?
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The innovation posts that caught my attention this week highlight the importance of asking better questions, and using an experimental approach to improve our innovation skills.
Lessons From My Latest Big Mistake
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Mistakes are fine, as long as we learn from them. Here is what I learned from one of my recent ones – about, ironically, a friend of mine that teaches us how to think better!
This Week in Innovation – 9 February 2014
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Ideas Change Lives: How Tom Peters’ Changed Mine
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Failure is Always an Option
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How I Almost Blew My Big Chance by Forgetting Everything I Know About Innovation
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I just started writing for Harvard Business Review Blogs. Here is the story of how I almost blew that opportunity, and how I finally made it work by doing what I already know works: experimenting.
This Might Not Work
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The most important phrase in innovation is “this might not work.” If there isn’t a risk, we’re not innovating.
How to Grow
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If we try to completely protect ourselves from failure, we’ll never learn. And if we don’t learn, we don’t grow. To grow, we have to take risks, and we have to mess up. If we learn from this, we’ll be ok.
Innovation Lessons from the Rise, Fall, and Rise of LEGO
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After a string of innovation failures, LEGO nearly went out of business in 2003. Brick by Brick tells the story of how this happened, and how LEGO turned things around to become an innovation powerhouse again. There are some broad lessons that can be learned from this story.
Seven Steps to Build Your Experimental Capability
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Experimenting is a core innovation skill. Scott Berkun’s book The Year Without Pants outlines the approach that Automattic uses to foster experiments at WordPress.com. It’s a great approach, which you can adapt to fit your organisation too.
Making Work Better – Scott Berkun & The Future of Management
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I’ve had a lot of jobs in my life, and many of them have been lousy. We need to make work better. Scott Berkun’s new book, The Year Without Pants, gives us some guidance in trying to make management more effective.
