The graveyard of great ideas

If you're a parent you'll probably remember being advised to let your children grow in their way but be careful of comparing them with others. Yet it was so tempting to do look over the fence and then feel regretful for doing so.

If you're leading a company it's equally easy to peer over the fence and be beguiled by innovation theatre or to find comparisons with companies that are not like you and you'll never be like them.   Both send our creativity and ideas to an early grave, both stifle the air from creativity.

In this podcast episode we look at at how great ideas are all around us for the taking but we either miss them, ignore them or worse we stifle them and kill the spirit of those tentatively practicing their creative spark.   The good news is every leader can turn this around and your people can be an even more valuable source of creativity energy for your company.   You can catch the whole transcript on my linkedin page or at ianbrowne.coach