3.1: Challenge to the Status Quo Discussion

Inhibitors to Innovation:

• You’re quick to defend and rationalize why and how tasks are currently performed.
• You’re quick to make excuses when asked to consider doing something differently.
• You frequently dismiss ideas because they appear risky or unproven.
• You often focus on the reasons why ideas won’t work instead of why they will.
• Your first thought about a potential change is that it will be a distraction to current operations.
• You consider the cost and effort a change requires before considering its potential benefits.
• You often speak on people’s behalf and dismiss new ideas without giving others a chance to consider the ideas for themselves.
• You default to doing what you currently do because you’ve been doing it for a long time.
• You don’t tolerate mistakes.

How well do you avoid these inhibitors to innovation?