Discipline and innovation are not opposites, but complements. Establishing an innovation culture consumes a great deal of organizational energy in overcoming the forces of inertia and entropy.
The “father of microsurgery” can teach us a few things about innovation. For one thing, the road to getting there is a journey full of detours, not a straight trajectory.
Forget trying to be an expert, a beginner’s mind is what allows us to creatively move ourselves forward.
Asking the right question might just be the answer. Innovation and execution are the two key components of any organization, but failure is an intrinsic, inevitable part of the process. Most products fail, most mergers and acquisitions fail, most projects fail and most startup ventures fail.
Along with one of the highly acclaimed must read business books “Everything Connects”; in 2014 Shadoka founder Faisal Hoque also published several dozen articles. These are some of his most trended publications on entrepreneurship, creativity, innovation, and leadership of 2014. These publications have been read and shared by thousands of readers globally.