Often, companies say that they want innovation, while they keep doing the same things the same way. But sometimes it is not so difficult. All it takes is having no other choice but to innovate or fail.
David Epstein shares this surprising anecdote about how the Canadian olympic skeleton team was forced to innovate, and they revolutionized their sport in 1 hour.
Some takeaways about creativity and innovation:
- If you want to compete with rivals with more resources, you’d better be more ingenious
- What made you successful in the past may not be enough in the future.
- Scarcity, crisis or failure may be a gift in desguise, the fertile ground where you can seed innovation.
- Only when we deattach from the things we’re used to, we can explore new ideas.
- Try many crazy ideas, select the best ones.
- A leader is key to encourage the creativity of his team.
- If you ask people the right questions, they may surprise you with the rigth answers.
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