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What sparks new ideas and innovation within people?
Tuesday, February 10, 2009, by Sebastian Dwornik
Simple: the environment of course.
Humans are extremely sensitive to their environment. Every work place we encounter for any significant time affects our lifestyle and attitude through the experiences we have in that environment. We adapt and gradually change along with it, either for the better, or worse.
Creativity, in the form of invention and innovation, requires a space where people are challenged, yet not entirely distracted, and are not afraid to be wrong.
While a complacent and stagnant work place drowns ideas and suffocates any wild thoughts that would otherwise bring colour and life to the people that crave to be heard.
Everyone is an Inventor
My first real job after graduating from college was developing boot ROM's for various network cards using x86 Assembly language. It was the summer of 1997 and being a hacker all my adolescent life, the job was well suited and very exciting. I even had a window cubicle.
Most importantly though were the people I worked with, and an easy-going boss that was a mentor as well.
Once a month, the entire engineering department would get together in the morning for a wild brainstorming session. The focus was ways to improve existing products and features as well as think of new product ideas.
It was a fantastic time. Not only did we get breakfast served, but everyone felt more important and useful in helping to grow the company with their input. The greatest satisfaction though was when your own idea is chosen to be further developed. A geek on such a mission is then rarely swayed and couldn't be happier.
The lesson: A work place environment should nurture and support its people to spark new ideas and be open to feedback. Because everyone has ideas and every person in a company should not only be selling, but inventing too.
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