Innovation Roundup – 8-8-2014

Here’s a sampling of some great articles about innovation from around the web:

• Improv and Comedy Can Infuse Companies With an Inventive Spirit – On the surface, business and comedy could not be more different. But the performance skill sets used in comedy routines are directly relevant to creating and maintaining a strong business culture. Straight-laced corporate culture is becoming a thing of the past as sketch comedy makes its mark on the business world. Improv training can teach startup founders and future entrepreneurs a thing or two about interacting with employees, investors and mentors.
• Innovation: Action That Could Be Considered a Ridiculous Error in Judgement – Innovation is action which, ex ante, could be considered a ridiculous error in judgment.  This is a critical point – the whole issue with innovation is that we can’t know in advance if it’s going to work or not.  If we know it will work, it’s not innovation, it’s just a financial decision.
• One Size Does Not Fit All – For 25 years, Stephen Shapiro has helped hundreds of Fortune 500 corporations and countless individuals innovate. He believes innovation happens only when divergent points of view are brought together in an efficient manner. The following discussion reveals some of his guiding principles.
• When Innovation Isn’t Glamorous – The plan is intriguing given the recent controversy surrounding Detroit’s decision — and subsequent retraction, at least temporarily — to shut off the water of delinquent customers. But it’s also interesting because it represents a form of innovation that often doesn’t get enough credit in a society accustomed to increasingly savvy technological inventions that promise to do things better, faster and cheaper.
• 10 TED talks that will help you become an innovative leader – Here are a few TED talks that I think will helps us become the leaders of the future.

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