Why innovation is not the preserve of the leader

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As I went through my own mental debate on the same my mind could not help but wonder 300 or so years back in time, to when and how the first trials in inoculation (the precursor to vaccination) were carried out in America.

There are many ways to deliver a culture that will help you derive these benefits starting with proactively widening the net from which ‘great’ ideas are fished to include the whole organization through encouraging free speech. Encouraging openness and transparency is a good way to win the trust of those whose ideas you seek, and this is best achieved by openly discussing the issues that you face and ‘opening the door’ for everyone, even those who ordinarily would not speak up, to contribute to the possible solutions. For those who don’t ordinarily speak up you need to create a safe environment where they too can contribute through a process that does not involve too many formalities and expose them to too many questions as you ‘open the door’. Furthermore, as the ideas begin to roll in, because they will at this point, it will be worth your while to set up a process where you will share all the ideas that have been contributed, making sure that you build on those that are not too sharp in order not to discourage their originators from ever contributing again. It goes without saying though that only those that pass a rigorous testing system which you will have set up should see the light of day.

Why innovation is not the preserve of the leader

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