Innovation Quick Hits - Frozen in Fear

Are you the deer in the headlights? Frozen by fear, you stop and stare at the oncoming lights of change. The headlights keep coming and a collision is unavoidable.

If change is the headlights and we are the deer, what keeps us mesmerized on staring at the inevitiable? Get moving, get going, start looking at what your business does differently, more agressively. The headlights are moving in a direction. Where are they going? Can I move with them?

Too often we focus on the reasons not to innovate or look at our small companies from what we haven't done or can't do (the typical "we don't have the time/money"). Well guess what? No one else does either yet successes abound. To look change in the eye is a stare contest that you will lose. We need a call to action with our company cultures to lead or follow. Getting out of the way is no option either as that is avoiding the inevitable headlights on the next road we cross.

Roadkill has no capacity to make a decision and the landscape is littered with companies that have left their mark on the road of a once living and thriving organization. Graphic but true.

Any good examples out there of what has gotten you off dead center??