To everything, its opposite. The 15th century gave us the idiom “a bird in hand is worth two in the bush.” The 20th century replied, “You have to speculate to accumulate.”
According to research published in the Academy of Management Journal, many corporate cultures display a strong bias against ideas from outside. This bias is called “not invented here.” It also has an opposite: “proudly found elsewhere.”
Both sides of the argument are being examined at our Digital Innovation Summit on leading a culture of innovation. We’ll report back on that in due course, but here are three contrary-sounding ideas for creating an environment of continuous learning, risk-taking, and idea generation that we proudly found elsewhere, from 100+ HR leaders who addressed the same topic earlier this year.
Organize Chaos
Stacy Winsett, Chief People Officer at RATP Dev USA, believes the first role of leaders today is to prepare their people for change:
Think Action
Renee Konzelman is the Chief People Officer for The Pampered Chef, a Berkshire Hathaway Company. She says a culture of innovation needs a leader who can do as well as they can talk.
Be More Microwave?
Jeff Arnold is Director of Talent Acquisition at Western Governors University. He believes how we think about and use AI will be crucial to leading innovative cultures, and we loved his description of why.
Understanding how you want to use AI, either as an enhancement or replacement, and communicating that in ways that build teams is a growing challenge of leading a culture of digital innovation. We suspect it will soon be the challenge.
There’s nothing new under the sun. Or: change is the only constant? When you need it, there’s an idiom for everything. The tricky part is deciding on the right one.
To continue exploring how your peers navigate these challenges and what’s next in digital innovation, join us at one of our upcoming Digital Innovation Insight Summits.
To see all our forthcoming summits, visit our events page.
