Focus on is the environment. Companies should take pains to ensure that the conditions that help people be more innovative, especially in the idea-generation phase—such as motivation, space to explore, the opportunity to develop deep domain knowledge, and time to think—are present. Time, in fact, may be the greatest luxury. Many of the efficiency- and productivity-enhancing steps that companies have taken over the past decade have sharply trimmed the time available for people to simply think. Jobs that centered on pondering longer-term, big-picture issues have been eliminated, and free time that might have been devoted to thinking has been scaled down generally as employees at all levels have taken on more and more responsibility.
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This post was written by techhair on July 14, 2008
