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Blawg Review #194 Celebrates Innovation at Build a Solo Practice

By Les Weinstein, Michael Young, John Leo Wagner, Eric van Ginkel, and Victoria Pynchon

This week, Susan Cartier Liebel (@SusanCartierLiebel) she of Build a Solo Practice and Solo Practice University, hosts Blawg Review #194 on our favorite theme:  innovation, using the Phoenix as her inspiration.  As Susan explains:

The Phoenix represents to many the life cycle: birth, growth, death and re-birth because from the ashes life arises anew often strengthened through reinvention. But this happens not just from reinvention of oneself but through innovation. And innovation helps to propel us forward.

The term innovation means a new way of doing something. It may refer to incremental, radical, and revolutionary changes in thinking, products, processes, or organizations. A distinction is typically made between Invention, an idea made manifest, and Innovation, ideas applied successfully. (Mckeown 2008) In many fields, something new must be substantially different to be innovative, not an insignificant change, e.g., in the arts, economics, business and government policy. In economics the change must increase value, customer value, or producer value. The goal of innovation is positive change, to make someone or something better. Innovation leading to increased productivity is the fundamental source of increasing wealth in an economy.

As we face the new year in what can only cheerfully be called a "down" economy (as opposed to one that's been systematically strip-mined) innovation is precisely what we need. 

So run on over to Susan's Blawg Review for the best innovative posts of the new year.

Next week, the Blawg Review Inaugural and Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Special at On Being a Black Lawyer.

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Full post as published by IP ADR Blog on January 12, 2009 (boomark / email).