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Innovation by Perspective
“You’re doing it wrong.”
“We’ve always done it that way.”
“That’ll never work.”
Universal refrains from people who don’t want to take responsibility for something. Or who don’t have imagination.
It’s effortless to blame someone else. We’re comfortable to remain grounded in what we’re familiar with. It’s painless to shoot down a new idea.
Any time we put forth a new idea, it’s a risk. We stand the chance of running into opposition, being rejected, or failing. Those are all valid fears, but they shouldn’t deter us from trying.
Or perhaps you think it’s too difficult or not worthwhile if you work in a staid, conservative environment, or you’ve got an old set of tools, or a limited budget.
I was reading Preet Bharara’s Doing Justice and came across a story of criminals who evaded police simply by being too quick, but it was the creativity of an employee, working with items at hand that put a stop to things.
There were a string of burglaries at a high-end clothing store. Every few weeks, criminals were breaking in at night, scooping up armloads of clothes off the racks, and dashing off before the police could arrive. They set off the store’s alarm, but they knew the cops wouldn’t be there for a while, so they were able to flee…
