Innovation Extermination
Top ten tips for preventing innovation -Tyner Blain1. Hire employees looking for safety in their roles. Innovation happens when people stretch outside their comfort zones - don'?t let them stretch! Find people who primarily want security and a nine-to-five role, stay away from those troublemakers who want to "change the world."?This goes on and on just getting better as it goes. I love reading stuff like this - it forces you out of your comfort zone of "reading any old blog post" and makes you challenge everything. In the end you're really paying attention, and that's just priceless.
2. Hire incompetent employees. What better way to prevent innovation than to have people who have to focus just to do the bare minimum? For extra safety, try and find someone who can take credit for other people'?s work and hide their own incompetence - these people are easier to promote, which will become important later. If we are forced to hire someone who is competent, it's critical that we make sure that they only have one area of expertise. People with more than one area of expertise, switch-hitters, just cause trouble by talking to people on other teams."
Most businesses do a great job of rooting out and squashing innovation. It's rarely conscious, and all to often a consequence of conflicting agendas, a general deficit in trust, and negligent management practices.
If you have the opportunity and the foresight, I highly recommend asking a potential employer about some of these qualities before you accept a job. It can make a world of difference.
