Drive your innovation... Posted by Sibi Sukumar , Friday, September 01, 2006 at 2:39 AM, in

I take this as a reflection of our collective outrage. I want it to positively energise us - spread, inspire and motivate us. I want that spark to become a rage for excellence amongst our lot and I don’t mean any hostilities by saying this.
Let’s save it for competition as and when it comes.

Why does the word `disruption’ come to my mind…? I mean disruption of the status quo in everything – education, healthcare, quality, technology, ideation, execution and so on. Keep raising the bar many times over. Let’s see how much they can catch up. Well, if they do, make sure the bar goes up again.

We all know that the power of an idea is only as good as its execution. So we can’t leave it half baked - let’s figure out ways to take this rage for excellence
forward. For starters - let’s innovate.

So what do we do as individuals to drive innovation….?


Recognize that the biggest sin of all is inadvertence, of not being fully awake. The future descends equally on everyone, yet some notice it faster. That’s because they are always pushing the limits of their knowledge, asking questions and picking up on weak signals.

Yet again, you have to be willing to place intelligent bets, give up the smoothness of predictability for capturing the upsides of intelligent risk taking. Not all bets will lead to success but there’s hardly any safety in passivity either. People are safe back home, but would we settle for that…? We need to have the self confidence to set a direction but not the arrogance to fight the need to change if conditions so require. We must not restrain our ambition and allow self-imposed limitations to make us aim too low.

Awaken the rage in us. Take your work a little too seriously bordering on the obsessive. If you are a salesman, never take `No' for an answer. Sense your
customers squirming yet don't leave without asking for the order and get it. If you are into software, never go to bed with that bug in your code. A graphic
designer ? Feel the physical pain when something is two millimetres out of place. Drive hard till you get it right.

Between knowledge power and a burning ambition, we have the potential to be the leaders in innovation.

Let’s get set to conquer.