Innovation is Small
Earlier in the week, I wrote about Five Ways to Pimp Your Creativity here on PYW. I thought I’d take a closer look at the five ways so that it is a bit more real in your work.
The first way to Pimp Your Creativity was a note that Innovation is Small.
Few of us have the ability to make a big-bang change in the world. Or the country. Or our company. You start looking at the big picture and will find that most of us, including us Pimps, can really only control or influence so much and nothing more.
We’re not going to change the blogosphere. We’re not going to save a company. We’re not going to invent the “next big thing.”
But we can write some good and useful stuff for our readers. We can help our readers do their work better and write it with a bit of pizzazz to make the learning a bit more fun.
In our endeavor, where we are just starting out working together, we can look at our work so far and see what ways things could improve.
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Should we have more pictures to make our point?
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Should we talk more about strategy?
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Should we post more often? Less often?
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Should we do podcasts? (Yes, we will)
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Should we focus more on Management? Small business? Marketing?
Those are just some very basic questions that we could be asking ourselves to see if we can make a good incremental improvement to what we write here on PYW. And, through your comments and feedback, we tweak what we do to make this blog more meaningful to you.
Is it saving the world? Nope.
We’re just pimping our blog with incremental improvements one post at a time.
Small changes. What we can control and influence. Making things better as we go. Being innovative and creative.
Not your standard definition of innovation, now, is it?
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4 opinions for Innovation is Small
Bill Quinn
Oct 13, 2006 at 7:35 am
Incremental is great. So many times I have been in business meetings where we start out with a job the size of replacing a door handle, and then the job grows into rebuilding the enitre house. Consequently, the door handle never gets changed.
Do you need pictures? Nope, but they do look good.
Should you talk more about strategy? Nope, the world is full of strategists and short on people who get things done.
Post more often?? Only if you’ve got good stuff to post.
Keep up the good work! Bill
tris Hussey
Oct 13, 2006 at 1:11 pm
Great post Scot! This is excactly it. If a small tip helps out, that’s awesome. BTw i’m checking this out from my Berry and it looks great!
T
Scot Herrick
Oct 14, 2006 at 10:33 am
Bill,
Thanks for the note. I’ve built a few houses (figuratively) in my time! It has led me to a little saying of mine - “One miracle at a time.” Get the doorhandle. Then get the door. Then get the frame.
It’s progress.
And thanks for the comments on areas to cover - the feedback is great!
Tris - you have to share how you get these posts out on a Blackberry or Treo…
Scot
Tris Hussey
Oct 14, 2006 at 5:04 pm
Easy Scot … I actived the WP Mobile version plugin … just go to pimpworkwork.com and enjoy! I hadn’t tested it out before and I was really impressed with how will it rendered the blog (in terms of simple navigation, etc).
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