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New
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1. Everyone has a natural ability to be
innovative, the ability to come up with ideas. I have
trained hundreds of unemployed, homeless and
disadvantaged people over the last twenty two years. Yet
most of these wonderful people, because of their past
experiences have given up on the idea that they are
innovative. The first rule in innovation is to have a
strong willed determination that you are as innovative
as your Creator wants you to be. Innovation is not based
on a person's riches, position, or status in life, it is
based on one's natural ability.
2. To consistently dwell among
individuals who put you down at every opportunity, will
eventually destroy your will. Once your will is
destroyed, you will lose more than your ability to be
innovative.
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Do not listen to their
discouraging words. |
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b |
Do not degrade yourself
because of your past or present situation. |
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c |
Do not allow
your sickness, disability, sex, colour or
anything else to stop you. You still deserve the
best. |
3. Challenge everyone in your
family or organisation to use their innovative ability
to come up with new ways of improving: a) profitability,
b) customer care, c) advertising and promotion or any
area you need help in. Some of the most successful
organisations in the world are those who allow their
people to come up with new ways of working. I heard that
an organisation was saved from bankruptcy because it
allowed a cleaner to use his innovative ability. Do you
allow your employees, spouse or child to use and develop
their natural, inborn, innovative ability?
4. One of the simplest and
easiest processes to develop innovative ability is to:
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Identify the need, idea, problem or challenge that needs
improvement. |
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Gather all the relevant information that is available.
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Brainstorm individually or in small groups alternative
ways for improvement. |
| d |
Evaluate all the alternatives. |
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Select the best possible alternative. |
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Design an action plan.
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Implement the action plan immediately. |
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Review its impact periodically. |
If the first alternative fails, select the next best
alternative, then design your plan, implement and review
it. |
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