While there are may books on innovation, there aren’t many that tells how to train your brain to innovate. I have been reading two classics back to back, both of which ask me to challenge the status quo. But have I?
I am talking about Gary Hamel’s Leading the Revolution and Kenichi Ohmae’s The mind of the strategist. I did find a lot of substance that actually made me think, and this process made me a fan of the two authors.
Gary Hamel opines that incremental innovations are no longer sufficient, they need to be replaced by revolutionary ones. Though the costs may not be humungous, only the ones having substance can survive. All good ideas are mocked at, and if an idea is instantly accepted, it may not be good enough!!
Hamel has given examples of real-life corporate rebels, such as John Patrick and David Grossman at IBM, Ken Kutaragi at Sony, and Georges Dupont-Roc at Shell. His message is the same to "old" and "new" companies alike: "Industry revolutionaries are like a missile up the tail pipe. Boom! You're irrelevant!" So join the revolution and avoid the explosion.
Its quite unputdownable, but given my time constraints, I need some time to finish it.
