What Are the Biggest Innovation Killers?

Here are the 16 most obvious means I have found that destroy business innovation.

Maintain the status quo

Working with few new activities and new environments is a guaranteed way to limit innovation and creativity. The true enemy of innovation is acceptance of the status quo.

Accept average quality

Have you occasionally noticed that you are spending most of your time on the wrong priorities? Doing much more but everything at an average quality? No time for innovation in anything? A great path to maintaining the status quo, isn’t it?

Limited view of imagination

Are you constraining your view of what imagination and innovation really are? Shouldn’t be very many constraints should there?

Overly reward innovation

Are you going overboard recognizing and rewarding your innovation? That can constrain additional creative thinking and improvement ideas.

Always evaluate imagination

Do you evaluate your imagination, creativity, and innovation? Again this can limit your out-of-the-box thinking.

Limit experiences

Do you lack the ability to explore and try new things? Does it make you feel uncomfortable?