Post by Gregg Caplitz on Apr 5, 2021 14:19:24 GMT
• How do you engage a team in innovating when they have anxiety around change?
I believe that to successfully engage a team in innovation when they are anxious about the team you must fully engage the team in the process of innovation. When dealing with individuals 3 of the 6 issues raised in Creative People Must be Stopped can get raised. They are Group Constraints, Societal Constraints, and Individual Constraints. The most obvious of these is Individual Constraints. Often people are anxious about change because they do not realize how it will impact them and their lives. To reduce anxiety these individuals, must buy in and understand how the change will not negatively affect them. Also group and societal constraints can contribute to this anxiety especially if the concept is” outside the box.”
• What is the relationship between innovation and steady state? Should innovation be embedded in steady state?
Steady State innovation according to one paper I found called “Beyond the Steady State: managing Discontinuous Product and process Innovation is defined as ‘essentially innovative activity in product and process terms”. I understand that to mean that innovation is accepted as part of the everyday process and activities. If I understand this correctly then yes, the organization’s goals should include attempting to institutionalize the process of innovation. Every activity is looked at to see whether it encourages or discourages innovation. While I think this is an idealized goal it does seem to be an admirable one.
Where did you see innovation?
Innovation was demonstrated in both video clips by accepting that they have never even modeled solutions to the problems they faced. The flight director stated that failure was not an option. In other words, innovation was the only option.
What innovations intrigued you the most?
The decision to make a square peg i.e. a square filter fit into a round hole
What was the team’s response to the need to innovate?
Driven by the goal to prevent an American dying in space, an event that had not yet happened to the US Space program the engineers not only had to fit a square peg or a square filter in a round hole they had to do it with the limited tools and supplies available to the Apollo 13 astronauts. It was a long trip to the corner hardware store. There only option was to innovate.
How did the leader drive innovation?
If we look at the 6 steps described in Creative People Must be Stopped the steps that come into play are obvious. They are Group Constraints, Societal Constraints, and Individual Constraints. The individuals clearly bought into the flight director’s position that ‘Failure was not an option”. The group dynamics then lead them to work together as a team. The individuals doubts are subordinated to the group’s will
I believe that to successfully engage a team in innovation when they are anxious about the team you must fully engage the team in the process of innovation. When dealing with individuals 3 of the 6 issues raised in Creative People Must be Stopped can get raised. They are Group Constraints, Societal Constraints, and Individual Constraints. The most obvious of these is Individual Constraints. Often people are anxious about change because they do not realize how it will impact them and their lives. To reduce anxiety these individuals, must buy in and understand how the change will not negatively affect them. Also group and societal constraints can contribute to this anxiety especially if the concept is” outside the box.”
• What is the relationship between innovation and steady state? Should innovation be embedded in steady state?
Steady State innovation according to one paper I found called “Beyond the Steady State: managing Discontinuous Product and process Innovation is defined as ‘essentially innovative activity in product and process terms”. I understand that to mean that innovation is accepted as part of the everyday process and activities. If I understand this correctly then yes, the organization’s goals should include attempting to institutionalize the process of innovation. Every activity is looked at to see whether it encourages or discourages innovation. While I think this is an idealized goal it does seem to be an admirable one.
Where did you see innovation?
Innovation was demonstrated in both video clips by accepting that they have never even modeled solutions to the problems they faced. The flight director stated that failure was not an option. In other words, innovation was the only option.
What innovations intrigued you the most?
The decision to make a square peg i.e. a square filter fit into a round hole
What was the team’s response to the need to innovate?
Driven by the goal to prevent an American dying in space, an event that had not yet happened to the US Space program the engineers not only had to fit a square peg or a square filter in a round hole they had to do it with the limited tools and supplies available to the Apollo 13 astronauts. It was a long trip to the corner hardware store. There only option was to innovate.
How did the leader drive innovation?
If we look at the 6 steps described in Creative People Must be Stopped the steps that come into play are obvious. They are Group Constraints, Societal Constraints, and Individual Constraints. The individuals clearly bought into the flight director’s position that ‘Failure was not an option”. The group dynamics then lead them to work together as a team. The individuals doubts are subordinated to the group’s will
