Tips for Business Creativity and Innovation

1. Create a powerful business vision, mission and value

2. Build creative team-playing committed leaders

3. Focus on what you want to achieve not what to avoid.

4. Develop tolerance for risk, error and setbacks and treat risk as adventure towards creating success.

5. Constantly feed your curiosity.

6. Use the power of intuitive thinking in all business operations

7. Avoid pushing for consensus too early.

8. Train employees to adopt the attitude of constructive discontent that is, disallow complacency.

9. Let employees know that mistakes are allowed in creative and Innovative endeavors.

10. Do not limit the number of ways people can succeed as long as it is ethical.

11. Reinforce the principle of small-steps in a creative and innovative adventure.

12. Share power and increase autonomy within reasonable boundaries.

13. Be open to new ideas from unexpected sources

14. Commend everybody connected with the business always as this would enhance peak performance.

15. Appoint employees to committees.

16. Appreciate the contribution of employees to the business. Make them stakeholders.

In conclusion therefore, without creativity and innovation, business is limited and not able to benefit from the immense resources embedded in personnel and may be locked in old habit, structures, and concepts.