All that sounds exciting. Very exciting, if I may say so. But the reality is something quite different. Most companies even with a lot of honest intention and effort fail to take off in the innovative direction.
And why is it so? There are many reasons. Here we shall highlight the most important reason.
To my mind the most important reason is the 'initial fright'. Innovation essentially involves 'change'. Over time most of us feel happy, secure and contented with what we think and do regularly. The feeling of security comes from routine and not from sudden disruption or changes. But innovation is all about disruption and changes in the way we think and go about doing what we think and know to be right. It is then natural that our mind detest sudden changes and therefore revolts. At the back of the mind the very thought of learning something new all over again is unnerving.
So how do we handle this 'fright'? We may effectively overcome such fright in three ways.
The easiest is to keep trying slowly and go with the flow. Changes automatically happen provided we keep thinking how or what we might do better.
The next way is to remember the adage 'Forgetting is more important than Learning'. We simply can't learn because the mind doesn't like to forget. Hence the mind has to be trained to forget our old ways of doing things.
The third way is by far the most difficult of the three. Only a few of us can achieve it. I call this third method as 'Playing and having Fun'. In this method we just enjoy doing what we do and take it up with the spirit of play. The play brings out the new concepts and ideas to enjoy better. And sooner or later we develop new ideas and concepts to do things in a better way. The best thing I like about the process is changes, even very disrupting changes, tend to happen effortlessly.
So why not enjoy and be happy.
Signing off for now,
Yours,
Dibyendu
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