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Best Practices Are Stupid

40 Ways to Out-Innovate the Competition

By Stephen M. Shapiro

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| Hardcover | 9781591843856

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What if almost everything you know about creating a culture of innovation is wrong? What if the way you are measuring innovation is choking it? What if your market research is asking all of the wrong questions?

It's time to innovate the way you innovate.

Stephen Shapiro is one of America's forem Continue

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With some tips that challenge the conventional wisdom that dominates popular thought and some other cool reminders.
Stop recognizing people for doing their jobs. It reinforces a culture where the status quo is good enough.
Performance paradox - when organizations hyperfocus on their goals, they a ... (continue)

With some tips that challenge the conventional wisdom that dominates popular thought and some other cool reminders.
Stop recognizing people for doing their jobs. It reinforces a culture where the status quo is good enough.
Performance paradox - when organizations hyperfocus on their goals, they are less likely to achieve these goals.
Smart people are often more interested in being right than in doing right.
Asking people for their opinions and allowing them to vote is not always the best way to run innovation efforts. Popularity begets popularity.
Although we often hear about the wisdom of crowds, in reality, personal prejudices tend to bias the process. When crowdsourcing focyuses on “how sth should be done” (solution) rather than “what should be done” (voting), we are able to more effectively tap into the true intelligence of the masses.
We look for and listen to only the evidence that supports our beliefs. Psychologists call this “confirmation bias.” It is one reason that individuals representing different “sides” of an argument (including politics) honestly feel they have the better argument. It is natural to focus on the strengths of our side and the weaknesses of the other side.
It is an innovator’s dilemma and opportunity. Brilliant innovations are not necessarily adopted by the masses, and some ideas just need time to incubate and gain acceptance. But will your business survive long enough to see the success ?
Research suggests that individuals working on their own actually produce a higher quality and quantity of ideas than when they work collaboratively.
Collaboration is useful when problems require “cumulative knowledge” and involve “building on past advances.” On the other hand, competition is most effective when “an innovation problem is solved by board experimentation.”

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