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January 7, 2009
Top 100 Lamest Excuses for Not Innovating in 2009
At the Heart of Innovation blog:
The Top 100 Lamest Excuses for Not Innovating in 2009
1. I don't have the time.
2. I can't get the funding.
3. My boss will never go for it.
4. Were not in the kind of business likely to innovate.
5. We won't be able to get it past legal.
6. I've got too much on my plate.
7. I'll be punished if I fail.
8. I'm just not not the creative type.
9. I'm already juggling way too many projects.
10. I'm too new around here.
11. I'm not good at presenting my ideas.
12. No one, besides me, really cares about innovation.
13. There's too much bureaucracy here to get anything done.
14. Our customers aren't asking for it.
15. We're a risk averse culture. Always will be.
16. We don't have an innovation process.
17. We don't have a culture of innovation.
18. They don't pay me enough to take on this kind of project.
19. My boss will get all the credit.
20. My career path will be jeopardized if this doesn't fly.
and 80 more after the link.
There's an upside. He gives a strategy at the end for turning these excuses into reasons and then focusing on success and positive results.
Stephen
Posted by stephen at January 7, 2009 8:01 PM