As I think through the process of innovation and about innovators and innovation models, it occurred to me that it might be possible to profile well-known innovators in order to learn the secrets of their success. This thought led me to the book Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey. In Death in […]
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Innovation vs. Creativity
Most dictionary definitions for the word “innovate” stop short of what I believe to be a true and complete definition. If you look up “innovate” or “innovation”, you will see a definition that suggests that to innovate is to come up with a new idea. To my mind, this way of looking at innovation […]
Innovation: More Than Thinking Outside the Music Box
In the environment of creativity and innovation, we often hear the expression to “think outside the box”, or for those of us in the music profession, the expression might be tailored to “think outside the music box.” As I explore innovation, I find that rather than thinking outside of any mental box, I find myself […]
A Mindset of Innovation
In previous blogs here on ChoralNet I have addressed the "why" of innovation in general, but for this blog I would like to address the “why” of innovation in terms of my own personal motivation. If I had to reduce the description of my choral conducting work to a single line, it would be […]
Innovation’s Foundation
One of my favorite movie scenes is from the 1995 film Apollo 13. In this clip, it is discovered there is a potentially fatal filter problem on the orbiting Apollo 13 rocket that must be corrected. The problem is, there are no replacement parts on board the space ship. In a moment that calls for […]
To Do a Different Thing requires that we Do Things Differently
Over the last month I have outlined two levels of innovation. The first was core innovation, which is the sort of retooling and improving good ideas that happens on a recurring basis in one’s area of work. The second type of innovation was adjacent innovation. Adjacent innovation takes place when you join your work in […]