I have seen first hand the transformative power that technology has to change lives. I wake up every day passionate about discovering new ways to express that opportunity.Innovation is driven by a commitment to thrive and leverage knowledge in new ways. As an industry leader, Jared Mabry reflects on how to question the norm, harness your assets, and provoke disruptive innovation.
I've written a number of blogs on the power of ideas, the keys to building an innovation culture, and what leaders need to do to drive these initiatives within their teams. Over the past eight months my team and I in the MidAmerica Division of HCA have embarked on a journey towards building an Idea-Driven Organization and I wanted to share the story of that journey so far.
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What organization on the planet would be crazy enough to say "We absolutely do not, under any circumstances, want to innovate! Innovation is a threat to our culture, to our belief system, and to our fundamental operating principles and practices!" Yet organizations both consciously and unconsciously say "NO!" to innovation each and every day. How can this be?
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In addition to close-minded leaders and teams, nothing will suck the life blood out of innovation quicker than bureaucracy. There, I've said it! In an attempt to turn chaos into calm, an inordinate number of organizational hurdles and obstacles have been implemented with great intentions, but with disastrous and oftentimes unintended consequences. As a result, laborious decision-making frameworks and policies continue to exert a stranglehold on organizations. Put another way, "Bureaucracy is the technology of control. It is ideologically and practically opposed to disorder and irregularity.
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hange is constant whether it's self-selected or mandatory. The challenge with change, or rather with our approach to change, is that intellectually we "get" the need for change, but oftentimes we either get stuck before we even start down the change path or we don't know or have what it takes to make the change stick. Before embarking upon that next great big work or personal life change challenge, factor the Four Imperatives into the equation if you truly want to succeed — Internal Motivation, Simplicity, Energy and Rewards.
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