Most people think that the ability to be innovative is a mystical state available only to the chosen few.
The effort, they imagine, takes a lot of time and hard work. And since they don’t have time and don’t like hard work, they reason that innovation just isn’t in the cards for them.
But innovation is not a mystical state. It’s a natural state — a human birthright. The people in your organization, in fact, already are innovative. The only thing is: their natural ability to be innovative is being obscured by their own habits of mind and a variety of bothersome organizational constraints.
