Creativity and innovation are important for the survival of businesses however there exist a slight difference between them
Creativity is more of an “internal” word. It’s subjective, harder to measure and harder to define. It’s more of inward journey on the other hand “Innovative” is an external word. It can be measured. It generally talks about things that have been tested properly and found to have worked in the real world. Creativity is thinking up new things and Innovation is doing new things. In a nutshell
Creativity = Ideas But Innovation = Ideas + Action
Creativity being the subset of Innovation.
However in the name of innovation I have seen leaders throwing hundreds of ideas to there subordinate. This type of leadership is extremely damaging when ideas are out of context and are in an uncontrolled fashion and that too on a day-to-day basis. Fuzzy ideas on a daily basis create a negative impact on people causing confusion, stress, disengagement, lack of trust and fear.
Leaders use fuzziness as a tool to dominate there people, when the target keeps on moving people are on there toes and when things go wrong it becomes easier for them to blame others. These managers don’t really know in which direction to lead their people, so they keep throwing ideas at them and constantly keep on changing the priorities. Mind you generating ideas is easier than following it thoroughly. Innovation without execution is absolutely useless.
As I earlier mentioned that Innovation= Ideas+ action, any new idea has to be discussed (anything that is not discussed remains unclear and un-understood). After discussion, Idea should be selected for execution wherein the execution should be planned, roles and responsibilities should be defined and after all the ground work done, it should go to an implementation stage.
Fuzziness doesn’t breed innovation, rather it kills, when leaders jump from one idea to another, there own ideas doesn’t appear important to them and therefore nobody follow-through them.
Fuzzy leaders take innovation as a shield to protect them, in the name of innovation they keep on fooling themselves and others and in turn causing confusion, stress and fear among the team which in turn hampers the creativity and innovation of the team.
Creativity being the subset of Innovation.
However in the name of innovation I have seen leaders throwing hundreds of ideas to there subordinate. This type of leadership is extremely damaging when ideas are out of context and are in an uncontrolled fashion and that too on a day-to-day basis. Fuzzy ideas on a daily basis create a negative impact on people causing confusion, stress, disengagement, lack of trust and fear.
Leaders use fuzziness as a tool to dominate there people, when the target keeps on moving people are on there toes and when things go wrong it becomes easier for them to blame others. These managers don’t really know in which direction to lead their people, so they keep throwing ideas at them and constantly keep on changing the priorities. Mind you generating ideas is easier than following it thoroughly. Innovation without execution is absolutely useless.
As I earlier mentioned that Innovation= Ideas+ action, any new idea has to be discussed (anything that is not discussed remains unclear and un-understood). After discussion, Idea should be selected for execution wherein the execution should be planned, roles and responsibilities should be defined and after all the ground work done, it should go to an implementation stage.
Fuzziness doesn’t breed innovation, rather it kills, when leaders jump from one idea to another, there own ideas doesn’t appear important to them and therefore nobody follow-through them.
Fuzzy leaders take innovation as a shield to protect them, in the name of innovation they keep on fooling themselves and others and in turn causing confusion, stress and fear among the team which in turn hampers the creativity and innovation of the team.
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