In this series, Dr. Evans Baiya addresses different corporate excuses and mindsets that hinder our ability to innovate successfully. There’s a misconception that hinders our ability to innovate—that we always need more big ideas.
Episode Transcript:
How come you are not innovating? You actually have to address corporate innovation excuses and mindsets. The next one I hear a lot is, “We need more ideas! But I really need the big ones.”
Actually, there’s nothing like big ideas. All ideas are ideas. Remember, they all start with the same value. What makes big ideas big, is a lot of small ideas that actually combine to make one bigger idea. But waiting for the one big idea—that is not realistic. Because that typically doesn’t happen and big ideas come from small ideas. We need to encourage everybody to bring ideas as much as possible, create idea banks, idea portfolios, and out of that you have enough for you to actually eventually come to that one big insight. And that one big insight is what you call the big idea. But the big one doesn’t magically happen. The big one comes because of all the small ones.
Learn about other excuses and mindsets that hinder our innovation abilities in this 90 Seconds of Innovation series here or by subscribing on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts so you don’t miss an episode. Tweet your innovation questions to @ebaiya. | Header Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash.
