What makes organisations truly innovative?

Yesterday we had an offsite, which means all the employees get an update on the strategic initiatives of the organization. The founder of the firm had one message ....to be innovative and truly in today's world, innovation is very essential for success. Hard work is great, but to be successful innovation and thinking different is vital...and even if you are successful, you have to keep innovating to be in the business.

Leaders in every organization are facing enormous new challenges. What worked in the past won’t necessarily work now and with the uncertain business environment it surely requires new ideas and skills to succeed and inspire.

The best new ideas aren't necessarily the most complex ones; they are the ones that are created by looking at an existing problem from a different perspective. Lot of organizations which are so called “innovative organizations” use the right methods and practices to extract knowledge within the organization. They know that ideas are there locked inside the brains of the employees, it is just the matter of how you can get them unboxed.

Innovative organizations like Apple and Google breed fresh ideas and recognizes talent. They also have unusual ways to keep workforce engaged for e.g. Google offers 20% of its time to its engineers to freely work on what they're really passionate about. Google News, Google Suggest and Orkut are among the many products which evolved from such programmes.

Innovative organizations empower employees, manage knowledge and thrive innovation. Leaders of such innovative organizations recognize that developing breakthrough products, revamping operational processes and coming up with new business models doesn't happen overnight. So, instead of relying on gimmicks or incremental line extensions, they're working to build organizations that are capable of sustained innovation.

Finally, inspired leadership is key for innovation.

Mr.G

Imagine, you get up in the morning and you are given a choicest of breakfast to eat, have choicest of trousers and shirts to wear , choicest of perfumes to spray, latest gadgets to make you look cool, drive a car which suits your mood , 10 minutes you reach office avoiding pollution, your boss is your uncle (so there is no way you get a bad appraisal ***** Five stars rating from the day he joined the firm), you throw your car to the janitor and he sparkles it every fucking day hoping some day his boss will be pleased, tea arrives dot on time, tea is good and that guy has been waiting for last 10 years to get a compliment but you never give him one, you don’t have to worry too much about backlogs coz there are people who take care of them, time to hit the seat in a air conditioned office, you first hit the masala news, chat with your car-loving friends, update your blogs, write reviews about the movie you saw last night, chat with your girlfriend and hey....its lunch time....cool

You have home cooked food of your choice so it is obvious you would enjoy your lunch...usually an hour coz you need to read the fun filled tabloids as well (how many things one can do at the same time), then you go out for another hour to do what the fuck you want, you come back and have tea to refresh yourself…that bloke still doesn’t get a compliment, time to work ...so open up some reports...sign a few docs, chat with your colleagues on cricket, bollywood, stocks, parties, girls and mind you colleagues are more like slaves to you so it is simple...laugh at my humour or else you would get heavy stick up your ass...then make a trip around the factory while you chat with your friends (others think you are closing a deal), call your girlfriend and have a romantic chat, decide where you want to go in the evening....it is party time ... rock and roll

Have a great evening in of the page-3 restaurants, catch a movie, say good night to your girlfriend, come back home, watch some non sense TV and call it a day.

Sorry forgot to mention … unbelievable remuneration (over the years it is growing faster that the company’s growth), under table perks, foreign tours, and hold a sexy post in the company.

One would say WOW… that is a dream fucking job....but hang on a minute…

There is one person who still cribs about all this mess ....you can gratify anyone on this earth but not him...but that is why he is my close friend and another Libran as well...Mr.G

No safe place for common man

After watching this movie, "A Wednesday" on Friday night, I felt as helpless and frustrated as any common man on the street. The message this movie sends across is simple “Governments…please stop testing the patience of the common man because it is already running out”. I went to sleep, thinking about how unsafe the world has become. Barely few hours, On Saturday, we witness yet another terror attack, now it was our capital.

Watching all the mayhem caused on the streets and so many innocents killed, I was angry, frustrated and extremely disappointed with our intelligence and mainly the politicians. Surely one can argue that being a country of billion people, it is difficult to track every individual but point is what lessons have we learned and what is the government doing to teach these culprits who in the name of Islam are killing innocent Indians.

If someone can casually go and plant these bombs at India Gate which is memorial for soldiers who died fighting for our country then I guess no one in India is safe. Our politicians assure us that these culprits will be punished but these assurances are as void and frail as our system. What we need now is India to act tough…very tough....get to the root cause and annihilate these extremists groups, whether it is SIMI, LET or any fucking terrorist camps inside our territories. Don’t catch them, just kill them. Surprisingly, I have not seen a single Muslim politician who came out in public and spoke harsh words about Islamic terrorists. Aren’t they polarizing us further?