Creating an Innovative Organizational Culture

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Innovative cultures are greatly valued because they are not only good for a company's bottom line, but also largely depicted as fun and characterized by easy-to-like behaviors such as tolerance for failure, willingness to experiment, etc. According to a very interesting article by Pisano, as desirable as it is, a sustainable innovative culture is nonetheless hard to create, because the fun behaviors are only one side of the picture, the tougher and less fun side must also be well understood and appropriately managed to make things work. Luckily that is what we like to do at 12manage 😃 1. Tolerance for Failure but No Tolerance for Incompetence An innovative culture naturally entails tolerance for failure, but it must not be accompanied by tolerance for incompetence, since it requires extremely competent people to make tolerance for failure work. In innovative companies, failures as a result of exploring risky ideas to draw valuable lessons are welcome, but failures due to me (...) Read more? Sign up for free

		Rick Mueller Professor, United States
	Might a Culture Have All of These and Still Fail to Produce Innovation? Hi Hong and thanks for the report. Given that n (...)

		Jaap de Jonge Editor, Netherlands
	Moving Towards a More Innovative Culture Thanks for the interesting article. Indeed there i (...)

		John Henry Project Manager, United States
	Innovative Culture.... To bring innovation to a culture, there are many t (...)

		Ayampillai Dharmakulasingham Student (MBA), Sri Lanka
	Innovative Culture Indeed the culture for promoting innovation is a t (...)

		Abdourahmane DIOP Management Consultant, Senegal
	No Negative Failure in an Innovative Culture @Ayampillai Dharmakulasingham: Speaking about firm (...)

		Warren Miller, CPA, CFA United States
	Moving Towards a More Innovative Culture @Jaap de Jonge: Thank you, Jaap. Your comments are (...)

		Sathya Devarakonda Project Manager, India
	Moving Towards a More Innovative Culture As @Jaap has rightly pointed out, a culture of Inn (...)