The 3 Biggest Enemies of Innovation

Innovation is arguably the most effective catalyst for business success. If growth, profit and market dominance is what you seek, then innovate! Apple did it, and captured the mp3 playback device market, Google did it, and now dominates online text link advertising, even James Cameron did it, and now his latest movie project Avatar, is the highest grossing film of all time. That would prove innovation to be the real secret to success, so why isn’t everyone doing it?

Three words: negativism, defeatism and over-complexity.

Negativity is to innovation what the appearance of a parent is to two horny teenagers – a kill joy. And adopting a defeatist attitude will guarantee your failure since you will give up at even the hint of an obstacle. Drowning your ideas in complexity is a sure way to stir up frustration, and frustration is no friend of innovation.

Open Forum suggests how business owners can defeat these three enemies of innovation.