The ONLY short list of Innovation Tips you’ll need in 2024!!!
2024 begins the way 2023 ended: with lots of people posting short lists of quick tips and tricks to jumpstart your innovation and change efforts.
Having waded through a bunch of them, I thought I’d help you out and save you time by providing the ONLY list for innovation tips you’ll need. Here goes:
- Ignore every single short list offering quick tips for innovation and change.
- If you find you have a hard time with #1, take every short innovation list you see and combine them all into one long list, ensuring that you will never, ever look at it again.
- Still can’t resist? For every quick tip, add “with your Mom” or “with a banana” at the end of every suggestion.
Following these three quick and easy tips and tricks should cure you of your Innovation List obsessions.
Still not satisfied? For those insatiable innovation list consumers, I’m offering two FREE, BONUS tips!
4. Make a list of everyone providing quick innovation tips. Check it twice. Find out who’s been naughty or nice.
5. Go directly to item #1. Do not pass GO. Do not collect $200.
Instead, get down to the business of the hard work of innovation and change. There are no shortcuts or quick fixes. It takes time, patience and perseverence. The hard work in and of itself will be reward enough no matter what the results. But please don’t lavish your attention on people selling you snake oil and silver bullets.
As the great jazz pianist Keith Jarrett once said, “The music (or innovation, for us) is struggle, you have to want to struggle. And what most leaders are the victims of is the freedom not to struggle. And then that’s the end of it. Forget it.”
Good luck in 2024. I hope you work hard.
