Do Your Performance Management Practices Inspire Innovation?

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”

 ~Antoine De Saint Exupery

Innovation takes creativity, and creative people need room to think and grow if businesses are going to engage the power of their creative thought.  As leaders, our focus needs to be on inspiring innovation in our employees and removing roadblocks so that they can do their best work.  Management is not equivalent to leadership yet why do leaders insist on “managing” their people, their teams?

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You Don't Have to be in the Technology Business to be Innovative

However I do see some good coming out of the overuse of the word: innovation used to be reserved for companies creating new technologies leaving the rest to do business as usual, focusing instead on making profits above all else.  By encouraging every company to innovate we are requiring that they are transparent in the ways that they are doing better business.

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Turning a Business Social

it is also the people who stand to benefit the most from social business efforts: engaged, empowered employees; customers delighted with co-created products that really fit their needs; trusted partnerships that thrive on personal bonds instead of fizzling in a muddle of miscommunication. 

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