- Did we forget to think inside the box?
- What is in the box that we are missing?
- How to be innovative and still maintain the status quo
- Think inside the box - Summary
Did we forget to think inside the box?
Thinking inside the box until a few years ago was taboo and instead, the new "clever" thought for managers who were looking for answers was "think outside the box".
If you were unable to think outside the box you were shunned and almost never had the opportunity to advance further in your career.
Came to the technology boom and the "outside the box thinking" was presumed to be the cause of so many individuals becoming overnight millionaires. This thought process was then labelled innovation.
Innovation is as old as the mountains and nothing new. With the bubble bursting in Silicon Valley, we suddenly came to realize that thinking inside the box is not always a bad idea.
Think about it carefully and you realize you have looked outside the box too often over the past years while packing all your goods inside the box.
It is like opening a bank account and then watching your neighbour grow rich without paying attention to your own investment potential.
When things start to go wrong in business the same people looking outside the box are very quick and eager to jump inside the box and make changes.
Outside the box then becomes what it was intended to be - a dream. In most cases, it becomes a bad dream as most will be discouraged to be innovative.
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Most owners and CEOs do not realize that out-the-box thinking only comes at a price tag that most cannot afford. Ask anyone to define what out-the-box thinking is and no one will give an answer that typically describes it.
Basically out the box thinking means
- To be innovative beyond reality
- Make changes so radical that everything you have ever done changes 100%
- Daring to do what everyone else was even afraid to even try
What is in the box that we are missing?
More success can be achieved by thinking in the box. You have everything here that you need to be innovative and build a successful business.
Innovation is taking the current and improving on it in so many ways that you can reap profit and acknowledgement from achieving your goals.
Working with what you have places everyone on the same page and only your leadership and creative thinking will determine the outcome. And of course, you must put your money where your mouth is.
Innovation does not come cheap otherwise everyone would be a leader in their respective fields of expertise.
Being innovative inside the box can ensure that your organization is the leader in the field of thinking outside the box.
Keeping the competition outside the box will ensure your own prosperity and keep your dreams alive for a long time coming.
How to be innovative and still maintain the status quo
Real leadership comes where you can be innovative without losing track of your current status quo.This will require you to be fully aware of where your current success comes from and what processes add value to your company. Knowing this will identify opportunities for improvement and this is where innovation comes in.
This will enable you to set up a business model that will include current successes rather than trying to start from scratch. It is easier to modify processes to become part of an innovative strategy and still maintain their current value.
If your innovation strategy fails it can be a long road back to recovery.
Think inside the box - Summary
It is good to think outside the box for innovation as long as we don't forget that there is a lot of stuff still in the box that will need attention.A bit like playing only with your new toys while all the things you once treasured are out of sight.
Often it is better to travel down memory lane and take stock of what was working in the past and why so thinking inside the box is not always such a bad idea.
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