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Libraries and a Culture of Innovation

One of my favourite newsletters is Report 103. The latest issue is about the culture of innovation. You can read it here.

Do our library cultures support innovation? How many of these 12 ingredients apply to your workplace? If the economy is difficult because of structural change, will you survive through sticking to your knitting or through innovation and adaptation?

A DOZEN INGREDIENTS FOR A CULTURE OF INNOVATION

The Ingredients:

1. Top Management Buy-In

2. Trust

3. Priority of Innovation (Often Confused with Time)

4. Freedom to Take Action

5. Freedom to Make Mistakes

6. Rewarding Rather than Stifling Creative Thinking

7. Collaboration Tools

8. Places and Opportunities to Talk

9. Places and Opportunities to Work in Isolation

10. Access to Information

11. Transparency

12. Humour

Read the whole article. There's a lot to learn.

"In times of difficult change, most organizations tend to overmanage and underlead."

Stephen

Full post as published by Stephen's Lighthouse on April 12, 2009 (boomark / email).