Why (intelligent) people resist change

From: http://www.business-strategy-innovation.com/wordpress/2011/02/why-people-resist-change/


"I most organizations, advocates of change are not viewed favorably by the people in charge and vice versa. As a result, too frequently, the dialog between change agents and those protecting the status quo breaks down because both sides pigeon-hole one another into simple, negative and convenient stereotypes."




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These two gems about innovation from this short article:

"Ultimately, innovation’s about identifying opportunities that few others see and designing new products and services to meet them"

"If we were starting from scratch, what would it look like?"

This morning I took part in a creative meeting (engineering + design) where we actually moved along these lines and were able to come up with a pretty nice concept that should be hitting the market early next year. A very satisfying couple of hours, and very exhausting too!

Re-invention

It's well known that people often re-invent and re-discover things. But we feel awful when we think we just had a great idea, only to realise sooner or later that someone else somewhere else beat us having that idea.

Today listening to a presentation at Harvey College in Claremont I thought I had an epiphany: "creativiteams" as a term to refer to the scientific study and professional coaching of teams in the workplace whose aim is to innovate. I've been doing some preliminary work in this topic, and I thought the term summarised the idea nicely.

As it turns out, these days it's very easy to 'test' our ideas by just "googling" them. I found the domain www.creativiteam.com, a consultancy specialised in bringing out the creativeness out of individuals, teams and organisations.

At least there's an advantage to all this: you can 'measure' how new or original is your idea: today there're only 170 hits of the term 'creativiteam', a compound term that, in hindsight, seems rather obvious.