Innovation doesn’t just happen. It’s created. It’s easy to sit back and wait for inspiration to strike. 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐳 𝐒𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐓𝐨𝐲 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭:https://lnkd.in/dQPbZ_qh But real progress? That comes from action.💪 The problem is, most people assume innovation is for “the creative types” or the “big thinkers.” Wrong!☹️ It’s for anyone willing to: ↳ Challenge the norm ↳ Break patterns ↳ And take risks Because the second you start thinking differently, New opportunities appear everywhere. Here are 5 ways to start innovating right now:👇 (From Forbes Magazine) 🔥 Question everything ↳ Stop accepting “this is how it’s always been done.” ↳ The biggest breakthroughs come from challenging the norm. 🔥 Surround yourself with different thinkers ↳ If everyone around you thinks the same, you’ll never see new possibilities. ↳ Different perspectives = fresh ideas. 🔥 Break something ↳ Tear apart a process, system, or routine and rebuild it better. ↳ Disruption isn’t a risk - it’s a necessity. 🔥 Get uncomfortable ↳ Growth doesn’t come from playing it safe. Try something new and watch how your thinking expands. 🔥 Act fast, refine later ↳ Perfection kills innovation. Take the leap, launch the idea, and tweak it as you go. The world rewards action, not just ideas. Which of these are you going to try first?

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Innovation doesn’t just happen. It’s created. It’s easy to sit back and wait for inspiration to strike. 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐳 𝐒𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐓𝐨𝐲 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭:https://lnkd.in/eJGyFYSz But real progress? That comes from action.💪 The problem is, most people assume innovation is for “the creative types” or the “big thinkers.” Wrong!☹️ It’s for anyone willing to: ↳ Challenge the norm ↳ Break patterns ↳ And take risks Because the second you start thinking differently, New opportunities appear everywhere. Here are 5 ways to start innovating right now:👇 (From Forbes Magazine) 🔥 Question everything ↳ Stop accepting “this is how it’s always been done.” ↳ The biggest breakthroughs come from challenging the norm. 🔥 Surround yourself with different thinkers ↳ If everyone around you thinks the same, you’ll never see new possibilities. ↳ Different perspectives = fresh ideas. 🔥 Break something ↳ Tear apart a process, system, or routine and rebuild it better. ↳ Disruption isn’t a risk - it’s a necessity. 🔥 Get uncomfortable ↳ Growth doesn’t come from playing it safe. Try something new and watch how your thinking expands. 🔥 Act fast, refine later ↳ Perfection kills innovation. Take the leap, launch the idea, and tweak it as you go. The world rewards action, not just ideas. Which of these are you going to try first?

Innovation doesn’t just happen. It’s created. It’s easy to sit back and wait for inspiration to strike. But real progress? That comes from action.💪 The problem is, most people assume innovation is for “the creative types” or the “big thinkers.” Wrong!☹️ It’s for anyone willing to: ↳ Challenge the norm ↳ Break patterns ↳ And take risks Because the second you start thinking differently, New opportunities appear everywhere. Here are 5 ways to start innovating right now:👇  (From Forbes Magazine) 🔥 Question everything ↳ Stop accepting “this is how it’s always been done.”  ↳ The biggest breakthroughs come from challenging the norm. 🔥 Surround yourself with different thinkers ↳ If everyone around you thinks the same, you’ll never see new possibilities.  ↳ Different perspectives = fresh ideas. 🔥 Break something ↳ Tear apart a process, system, or routine and rebuild it better.  ↳ Disruption isn’t a risk - it’s a necessity. 🔥 Get uncomfortable ↳ Growth doesn’t come from playing it safe.  Try something new and watch how your thinking expands. 🔥 Act fast, refine later ↳ Perfection kills innovation.  Take the leap, launch the idea, and tweak it as you go. The world rewards action, not just ideas. Which of these are you going to try first?

Innovation doesn’t just happen. It’s created. 🚀𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀 𝗡𝗼𝘄:https://lnkd.in/dKRXwsUi It’s easy to sit back and wait for inspiration to strike. But real progress? That comes from action.💪 The problem is, most people assume innovation is for “the creative types” or the “big thinkers.” Wrong!☹️ It’s for anyone willing to: ↳ Challenge the norm ↳ Break patterns ↳ And take risks Because the second you start thinking differently, New opportunities appear everywhere. Here are 5 ways to start innovating right now:👇  (From Forbes Magazine) 🔥 Question everything ↳ Stop accepting “this is how it’s always been done.”  ↳ The biggest breakthroughs come from challenging the norm. 🔥 Surround yourself with different thinkers ↳ If everyone around you thinks the same, you’ll never see new possibilities.  ↳ Different perspectives = fresh ideas. 🔥 Break something ↳ Tear apart a process, system, or routine and rebuild it better.  ↳ Disruption isn’t a risk - it’s a necessity. 🔥 Get uncomfortable ↳ Growth doesn’t come from playing it safe.  Try something new and watch how your thinking expands. 🔥 Act fast, refine later ↳ Perfection kills innovation.  Take the leap, launch the idea, and tweak it as you go. The world rewards action, not just ideas. Which of these are you going to try first?

Innovation doesn’t just happen. It’s created. It’s easy to sit back and wait for inspiration to strike. 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭:https://lnkd.in/gBDhewVi But real progress? That comes from action. The problem is, most people assume innovation is for “the creative types” or the “big thinkers.” Wrong!☹️ It’s for anyone willing to:👇 ↳ Challenge the norm ↳ Break patterns ↳ And take risks Because the second you start thinking differently, New opportunities appear everywhere. Here are 5 ways to start innovating right now:👇 (From Forbes Magazine) 🔥 Question everything ↳ Stop accepting “this is how it’s always been done.” ↳ The biggest breakthroughs come from challenging the norm. 🔥 Surround yourself with different thinkers ↳ If everyone around you thinks the same, you’ll never see new possibilities. ↳ Different perspectives = fresh ideas. 🔥 Break something ↳ Tear apart a process, system, or routine and rebuild it better. ↳ Disruption isn’t a risk - it’s a necessity. 🔥 Get uncomfortable ↳ Growth doesn’t come from playing it safe. Try something new and watch how your thinking expands. 🔥 Act fast, refine later ↳ Perfection kills innovation. Take the leap, launch the idea, and tweak it as you go. The world rewards action, not just ideas. Which of these are you going to try first? 🚀

The Enemies of Innovation “When Quick Wins Cost You the Future” “It’s one month to Q3. What’s the progress on our initiatives? What will we have to show?” Sound familiar? It’s a fair question, but over time it reshapes how organisations think. We start optimising for what fits the quarter instead of what could define the decade. Short-term thinking is innovation’s quietest killer. The problem isn’t a shortage of ideas. It’s that we don’t give them time to grow. Every time we chase next quarter’s results, we may as well leave our best fruit to the birds! In my previous posts, we looked at the other enemies of innovation: How Business-as-Usual drains oxygen from creative work. How silos make good ideas fall into the abyss. Short-termism is their perfect ally: it rewards motion over momentum. We love low-hanging fruit - it feels smart. You’ve seen it on the impact/effort matrix - quick wins, easy progress, visible impact. Controversial thought: low-hanging fruit actually stunts growth. When “quick wins” become the default, innovation loses impact. Teams start chasing easy, copyable ideas that deliver short-term value, but no long-term edge. Efficiency replaces imagination, differentiation is a casualty. The truth? The biggest, juiciest fruit always grows higher - in the high-effort, high-impact branch. It takes climbing, patience, and resilience to reach. But that’s where true innovation lives. Practical Shifts - Balance your bets: quick wins and long burns. - Measure learning as progress. - Reward stamina, not just speed. It's worth it! Takeaway Quick wins keep the flame alive, but it’s the long burn that makes it shine. Question for you: Has short-term pressure ever killed a great idea in your world?

Why big ideas fail Big ideas don’t fail because they’re bad. They fail because they’re not connected to a market need. Innovation isn’t about how exciting the idea feels in the room—it’s about how deeply it solves a real customer problem. The bridge between creativity and ROI is validation. ✔ Test early. ✔ Listen harder than you pitch. ✔ Iterate ruthlessly. At Gore, I saw incredible technologies—some became billion-dollar platforms, others stayed on the shelf. The difference? The winners connected technical brilliance to a real pain point customers would pay to solve. 💡 The best question an innovation leader can ask: “Who cares—and why?” 💬 What’s the last idea you validated directly with customers?

ARE YOUR INNOVATORS REALLY INNOVATING? Raul E. Maciel. They are fast-spoken individuals. They can paraphrase anything that “Jobs said,” “Google does,” or “Tesla made right”. They are telling you everything wrong, right in your face (if they have the guts). They are assigned the marvelous and ethereally undefined job of “creating innovation”, or “making our company an innovative one. The thing is… There you have your Innovation Director looking at your face, making you spend whatever amount of resources you never thought to spend. Sometimes they come alone, reciting Design Thinking's over-chewed phrases and exercises. Some other times, they are part of an innovation team, so it is unnecessary because they often come to the same conclusion, so all but one is too many. Are your innovation directors and teams really innovating? Do they really surprise you and the CEO team with bright solutions or new business in places where there are Blue Oceans that no one seemed to notice? Are they really looking inside our internal processes and services? And providing you with innovative alternatives towards efficiency for every process, which for years have been quiet victims of continuous improvement patches and experiments? Are they returning the big money and resources that are spent on them and their teams? What is your innovation department's ROI? Do you know? Are your “innovators” spending your money and resources on STRATEGICALLY ALIGNED and DATA-DRIVEN projects, or are they still experts of the “flavor of the month” or the flashy mammoth events where they find out that "grass is still green"? Dear CEO, I want to share your thoughts and plans about innovation.  Are you asking the RIGHT questions to your innovation team? I want to motivate you to BELIEVE that through REAL innovation, your company will find and exploit Blue Oceans, where competition is irrelevant. I do not know you, but I appreciate you. Please do not buy innovation jargon and fast-talking innovation salesman, buy instead, highly competitive products and services like a home-run hit baseball that everyone sees to fly away far from the batting place where you are now. I want you to believe in innovation, but I also want to have in your innovation team REAL GAME CHANGERS, they are paid to THINK and EXECUTE, to REFORM AND SHAKE your organization.   Are they doing so?

Big bets don’t start with big ideas. They start with proof of impact. Every innovation leader wants to shape the future. But you don’t earn the right to play in Horizon 3 - new markets, disruptive models, transformative ventures - without first showing you can deliver in Horizons 1 and 2. Here’s the reality: → H1: strengthen the core. Quick wins like cost savings, efficiency gains, and better customer experiences. They build trust because they show results fast. → H2: expand to adjacencies. New offerings or markets that stretch your existing strengths. Higher risk than H1, but they demonstrate your ability to scale growth. → H3: create the future. Disruptive bets that capture imaginations (and budgets) once you’ve earned leadership’s confidence. Sequencing matters. No H1 wins, no H2 scale. No H2 growth, no H3 moonshots. Innovation isn’t just about creativity, it's about delivering measurable impact step by step until bold ideas get the backing to become reality.