3 reasons your team isn’t innovating

摘要

Behind COVID's smoking wreckage, new Facebooks are being born. Not social networks necessarily, but transformative ideas that will become the building blocks of the ‘new normal’ in every sector. Yet when the smoke clears, many organisations will find themselves dependent on ‘old normal’ models, perhaps sporting a digital facelift. The deliberate pursuit of profitable relevance has never been more urgent. What’s hot today cools faster than ever. Yet innovation, the engine room of relevance, seems to continually slip through managers’ fingers. We desire and lack it in equal measure. Three common issues typically stand in the way, but each can be overcome. Many employees feel as if they are working at 120 per cent capacity just to get the day job done. 'Thinking about the future is a luxury around here' is a common management complaint. Yet, left unchecked, it becomes perhaps the largest threat to the organisation’s future relevance and prosperity.