Why Innovation Should Be Painful
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by Joe Wynne
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You know innovation is important, but do you know it is important enough to clash with your successful practices? According to an article in the Harvard Business Review, your organization will have to unlock access to its works and toss in a wrench - one of those real heavy ones – and let it clang around day after day.
Here’s the key: Organizational practices that sustain performance in your organization will grind against those
practices that sustain new ideas.
The innovation-inspiring practices require you to do things that seem counter-intuitive and perhaps even weird, such as hiring people who
- are not compatible with your existing workforce
- come from industries and organizations unlike yours
- have expertise which is not clearly related to that used by your workforce
- defy management
That sounds like a recipe for disaster, doesn’t it? Yet author Robert Sutton says this kind of hiring, and the management practices that are then required, are necessary for continued success in your organization.
Your first step should be to assess what you are doing now. Are you hiring people like this? When people like this appear in your organization, what happens? Do they last long? Are their ideas used - or abused?
In my next post, there will be some pointers for maintaining a balance between your existing practices and practices that support these heretics.
Posted on: December 08, 2007 01:10 PM |
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Braden Kelley
Human-Centered Design, Innovation, Change and Transformation Leader| Best Selling Author and Keynote Speaker
Issaquah, Wa, United States
Most organizations that don't have good ways to scale potential innovations because the operational beast of the organization fights against it, and lack a bridge between the two sides of the organization, better get started building one, and finding a way to respect both those that create and those that operate.
Figuring out how to structure your organization and your investments to respect both operational excellence and innovation excellence can be daunting and difficult, but it can be done.
It requires sustained commitment though...
Braden (@innovate)
Kevin Coleman
Subject Matter Expert, Author, Speaker and Strategic Advisor| - Insights
Pa, United States
Those who stand to lose make innovation and change for that matter painful!
Hi
Basically almost most the organizaions, have the same "template" for hiring personal and I think that if we are looking for Innovation, we need to involve HR in that process and we need to create a new hiring process according to the organization focus.
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