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June 21, 2006
Top 10 ways to prevent innovation
In an extended blog post about what companies do - and don't do - to encourage innovation, Tyner Blain has put together a playful, tongue-in-cheek look at the Top 10 ways that companies unwittingly stifle innovation:
* Hire employees looking for safety in their roles.
* Hire incompetent employees
* Keep salaries below the 75th percentile.
* Treat employees like garbage
* Reward conservative and marginal successes.
* Micromanage
* Only create customer-requested features
* Make performance reviews easy
* Build mini-kingdoms so that people can't find information and contacts
Wait a second, you're probably thinking, that's only 9 items. Didn't you promise us 10 items? OK, here's the 10th way that companies stifle innovation - it doesn't really lend itself to a pithy one-line summary, but here goes:
"Read The Ten Faces of Innovation by Tom Kelley of IDEO. He focuses on the types of people and organizational behavior that encourage innovation. The writing style is very clever - Mr. Kelley writes as if he were trying to encourage innovation - what a riot! He identifies ten personas that contribute to innovation. Put those ten faces on the wall in HR like an FBI most-wanted poster and coach HR to screen those people out."
Tags: innovation management
[image: Bozo's Lament on Flickr]
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