![]() Maybe I’m not there, but I’m still trying There’s more to living than only surviving When I escaped I didn’t feel like I got away Might it be for a single person, team, department or the company as a whole. Because, the people with the ideas might not have the energy and motivation to keep sharing their ideas forever, just to see them being unactioned. This end-state could be considered the death of innovation. They don’t want to invest money or effort just to learn to do something new or different. Perhaps both team and boss have grown comfortable with everything and how it is. Or even worse, they are directly rejected because their stakeholders are not interested in changing anything. They will ask and remind those stakeholders, but in the end, nothing will change. Yet, sometimes they seem to agree with everything but then don’t support it, and nothing happens around it. If the others add their thoughts with proper critique, no problem. When these innovators then share their ideas with their team or pitch them to their boss, they hope for them to welcome the idea and support it to find a way to implementation. People try to come up with ideas on how to improve their work, deliver it faster or even automate the processing with the help of technology. This is most commonly referred to “going the extra mile” among other similar meanings. When you’re stressed enough with your tasks as is, some people try to invest their time and effort beyond what they have to do to help the team and company into a better state. Most certainly there is a much more emotional and more substantial meaning behind the song, but I hope you don’t mind me referencing it in this article.ĭodging bullets while you’re trying to find your wayĮveryone’s around, but no one does a damn thing As I listened to the lyrics again after a long while of not hearing the song, I felt a rather strong connectivity to the scenario described above. Having a rather large playlist on random play mode last night, I heard the song “Staring at the Sun” written by Bryan “Dexter” Holland and performed by The Offspring. This is a terrible state but it can happen, and it’s not an unusual thing to happen either. Have you ever encountered people who know better but just don’t care enough any longer to actually speak up about their ideas? No matter if it’s at home, school or work when people’s ideas are ignored for too long, they will keep their innovation for themselves, or for the business scenario, they might take them to other companies or even start their own. ![]() Yet, I do have another good source of inspiration that sparked this subject today: Music. If you came here, expecting references to the solar eclipse, that happened earlier today in the US, you will not find them in this article.
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