The Innovation Killers
(Or: Do You Have An Organizational Sclerosis That Clogs Up Your Ability To Deal With The Future?)
CLIENTS
These are a few of the agriciltural organizations that have booked Jim Carroll in the past. He has spoken for senior leadership meetings for the world’s largest agricultural companies. Industry association events, farm credit and supplier co-operatives and many more. After one event, one farmer came up and asked Jim how long he had been a farmer!
DAILY INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE
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WHAT ARE THE
INNOVATION KILLERS?
Many organizations have failure embedded into
their DNA.
They build up a culture of aggressive indecision,
which guarantees a slow culture that provides
them a boat-anchor in the era of acceleration.
Jim Carroll identifies, on stage, both the cultural
killers and the practical strategies that must be
pursued to break through!
POSTS ABOUT THE INNOVATION KILLERS
THE LIST OF INNOVATION KILLERS
Find out! Print the list below, and take it into your next meeting. Score one point each time a phrase is used, plus bonus
points as indicated. Score more than 5, and you’ve got an organization that is innovation-adverse. Score 10 or more, and
you are innovation dead. 15 or more, and you might as well close up shop – or immediately book Jim for guidance!
- “We’ve always done it this way” (3 bonus points)
- “It won’t work”
- “That’s the dumbest thing I ever heard”
- “That’s not my problem”
- “You can’t do that”
- “I don’t know how”
- “I don’t think I can”
- I didn’t know that”
- “The boss won’t go for it” (5 bonus points)
- “Why should I care?”
INNOVATION KILLER VIDEOS
10 SIGNS YOU’VE GOT AN INNOVATION DYSFUNCTION
Read this list. Is this your organization?
- People laugh at new ideas
- Someone who identifies a problem is shunned
- Innovation is the privileged practice of a special group
- The phrase, “you can’t do that because we’ve always done
it this way” is used for every new idea - No one can remember the last time anyone did anything
really cool - People think innovation is about R&D
- People have convinced themselves that competing on
price is normal - The organization is focused more on process than success
- There are lots of baby boomers about, and few people
younger than 25 - After any type of surprise — product, market, industry or
organizational change — everyone sits back and asks,
“wow, where did that come from?”
WHAT SHOULD YOU DO ABOUT IT?
Ideas flow freely throughout the organization subversion is a virtue
success and failure are championed there are many, many leaders who encourage innovative thinking, rather than managers who run a bureacracy there are creative champions throughout the organization — people who thrive on thinking about how to do things differently ideas get approval and endorsement
Rather than stating “it can’t be done,” people ask, “how could we do this?” people know that in addition to R&D, innovation is also about ideas about to “run the business better, grow the business and transform the business” the word “innovation” is found in most job descriptions as a primary area of responsibility, and a percentage
of annual renumeration is based upon achievement
of explicitly defined innovation goals
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