As we continue to grow, the question is, how do you keep the company as innovative as it was 15 employees ago?
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Give your employees a shot at showing the company a new way, and provide the room for them to chalk up a few small victories. Once they've proved that their idea can work on a limited basis, they can begin to scale it up.
Companies have to be innovative in leading with values the same way they have to be innovative in their products and services.
The key is to embrace disruption and change early. Don't react to it decades later. You can't fight innovation.
Just tasking a team to be creative won't get you to be innovative. It's having a corporate climate that gives people the space to experiment and take risks. Only then can you truly sustain it.
Hire passionate employees.
Your innovation can create new winners and losers; or at the very least, make existing companies look fresh and innovative by partnering with you. Everyone wants to align with market makers.
My definition of 'innovative' is providing value to the customer.
Most of my ideas are based on the latest research on productivity, performance and mental mastery - that's why so many iconic companies bring me in to help them grow and win.
Innovation is this amazing intersection between someone's imagination and the reality in which they live. The problem is, many companies don't have great imagination, but their view of reality tells them that it's impossible to do what they imagine.
You can always think that we're old and not innovative, but there is no company that can limp on for 139 years without being creative and having the genes to change.