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Are dumb rules getting in the way of innovation in

your organization?

Holly G. Green the architect of pause™

& thinking to thrive expert



Consider a belief about your business


We can't raise prices. Our customers won't go for that. We can't renegotiate our deal with our suppliers.

We can’t change this process; we’ve always done it that way. That’s the way our industry does it.


Beliefs = Rules

generally stop innovation

and


and ponder the ‘rules’


What you are absolutely, positively sure is so about the rule? What assumptions do you have about whatever the new idea is? (perhaps because it actually was once upon a time before things changed)? Jot down all the rules you have about a particular challenge or opportunity.



…you were wrong? What else might you see? Are there other possibilities? Does your competitor see it differently? …you knew nothing about your sector or how things are always done in your business? …you had to prove yourself wrong; what other data might you consider? …these are no longer the rules? …you did it differently?


‘What if?' questions prompt your brain to go to work on answering them. You consider alternatives & options. Then your brain puts together data & tries to answer the questions in ways you didn’t even know you could thunk!


Innovation = Possibilities

Open your brain & question a few rules.

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