Principle #1 in Jim Carroll’s Mastering Innovation sequence.
“World-class innovators refuse to accept the way things were” - Futurist Jim Carroll How do you become a world-class innovator? Not someone who merely pokes around the edges of innovative thinking and explores a few ideas here and there, but someone who truly tries to infuse the mindset of everything you do, or into every goal and action that your organization pursues. I head to Orlando tomorrow, where I’ve got a repeat engagement with a client; they had me in exactly 10 years ago this week for a talk to their core client group. I dug out the slide deck I used back then to get a bit of a sense of the ground I covered with them, and it’s going to provide quite a wonderful structure as I take a look at where we were a decade ago compared to now. That said, what also caught my interest was the title slide in my keynote for them 10 years ago - “What Do World Class Innovators Do?” That’s because this is a theme that played into a tremendous number of keynotes from 2009 up until the pandemic in 2020. It continues to do so. The original…