1. It is important to be courageous enough to challenge the status quo.
2. Encourage your subordinates to take more risks and permit them to fail, get back up, and try again.
3. Transparency is an asset, not a risk.4. Collaboration enables systemic change, every challenge and risk is an opportunity, and to make real change, one has to be a catalyst.
5. Your business attitude determines your potential for innovation, creativity, success in your chosen field.
6. Use creative thinking exercises to nourish my mind and you will become an ‘idea person’. Try creative thinking exercises like the Idea Quota, in which you set an idea quota for each challenge you are working on.
7.Read more broadly, focus on new information and ideas. Experiment with the creative process concept of a brain bank, whereby you collect interesting ads, quotes, designs, ideas and the like that might trigger ideas by association.
8. Document your thoughts more and work towards making your thinking more fluent and flexible.
9. Practice divergent thinking. It involves being able to merge, or combine, unusual ideas.
10. Don’t just create new ideas, turn them into new business value. In essence, innovation must be a continuous process, a matter of strategy, method, and habit.
