No matter what it is, it always comes back to process, doesn't it? Even innovation-breakthrough, shatter-the-mold change-requires the right process to succeed. And the first part of that innovation process is creativity. Yet, many organizations do not have the right infrastructure to foster creativity well. Author and psychologist Daniel Goleman points to an interesting connection between creativity and innovation, offering a caution for anyone involved in the process: "You can have quite a lot of creativity in a business organization without having much innovation at the other end. This occurs when people aren't very motivated, or proper systems aren't in place. Such workplaces have difficulty hearing the creative ideas, developing them, letting them grow, and figuring out how to implement them successfully."
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