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“…every boss ought to keep searching for things to remove and simplify—and ways to make life less frustrating and annoying. Great bosses live the motto ‘When in doubt, take it out.” Robert Sutton When I read the above quote from Robert Sutton’s, “Good Boss, Bad Boss” I thought about the connection to this idea and how “innovation” if often something discussed in education. In “The Innovator’s Mindset” I defined the word innovation as a way of doing “new and better things.” It has to be both, but often the focus is on the “new” as that is often perceived as being cutting edge. If you never give time to the things you used to focus on, and are always looking at adding new initiatives, you will eventually not only become good at nothing, but people will be overwhelmed and burnt out. The “new” part isn’t necessarily about new things, but new ways of doing the things that you are already comfortable with. There is no “innovation” until you excel at the “basics.” I remember hearing Yong Zhao once share, “Reading and writing should be the floor, not the ceiling.” There are fundamental things that we need to be good at, in pursuit of growing in that area, not constantly switching directions. Ultimately, innovation comes from people and if those you serve have no time to go deep into what you are already doing, it will only lead to initiative fatigue. Doing things better is less about the “things” and more about people. How do you bring out the best in them?  I shared this in “The Innovators Mindset”: _________ “To create a culture where innovation flourishes, we have to realize that, in many cases, we already have everything we need; we just need to figure out how to tap into it.” _________ As Sutton shared, great leaders collaboratively focus on what is necessary as much as what is unnecessary, to bring out the strengths of those they already serve.

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