Thursday, May 26, 2011
At its most basic level, innovation requires accepting that what you're trying to achieve may not work out. If you're not willing to risk failure, you'll only do things which are guaranteed success- i.e. what's already proven successful rather than what's new, which might not be.
For this willingness to risk, you need either a culture that encourages risk-taking; or the internal confidence to take risks even when the culture doesn't promote it. Ideally, you'd have both the culture and the mindset.
One of the most important things to promote risk-taking is to destigmatize failure; or rather disassociate "innovations that didn't work out" from loss of status .
Now, what about the mindset? It essentially parallels culture: just as the right culture helps people feel that "Even if this fails, they'll still like me"
the right mindset requires that
"Even if this fails, I'll still like me."
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