LogicPrep’s Founder & CEO Lindsay Tanne was recently featured in Forbes sharing her perspective on guiding a team toward innovation:
Avoid Using Default Explanations
“At all costs, avoid default explanations such as ‘because this is how we’ve always done it’ or ‘well, we tried it once and it didn’t work’ as a response to suggestions for innovation. Experience matters and can provide a valuable foundation for further development and improvement, but it can also inadvertently undermine employers’ attempts to encourage novel thinking. Sure, past experience offers reference and context, but just because something has been unsuccessfully attempted once doesn’t mean that it can’t be tried again with a different team or in a slightly different way. Remember, it’s essential to learn from past experience, but relying too heavily on what has ‘always been done’ or what was ‘attempted in the past’ can also dampen new employees’ appetite for discovery.”
-Lindsay Tanne, LogicPrep
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