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Quick Question: How do we balance creative exploration with strategic focus?
Here is today's quick question for you...How do we balance creative exploration with strategic focus?
Innovation teams live perpetually in tension between possibility and practicality. The creative energy that generates breakthrough ideas can also lead down fascinating rabbit holes that, while intellectually interesting, serve no one. The challenge isn't choosing between strategy and creativity. It’s finding a way to harness the power of both at the same time.
Ask it when you're...
Justifying your creative efforts - When stakeholders question your team's "fun" projects, it's time to examine whether you're communicating the strategic value of exploration.
Finding brilliant ideas go nowhere - If your team is ‘all ideas, no execution’.
Priorities are unclear - When every creative pursuit feels equally valid, but resources are constrained.