Innovating Like Crazy; Executing Like Crap

Innovating Like Crazy; Executing Like Crap This is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules -- . The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security. Top 10 Posts on Categories This past year has seen hundreds of articles â€" both mainstream and blog â€" that tell us that the only way to survive is to innovate, innovate, innovate. And it’s true â€" whether it is a company’s products and services or our personal brand, we all need to be continually innovating to meet the changing business environment. Yet, we see the innovations meaning nothing or our personal brands be mere words written on an electronic screen. This failure of execution should not be surprising: when is the last time your company, division or department mission statement was actually something you believed in and executed against? When was the last time your vision was something you looked to in order to execute your mission? For that matter, how many of your vision and mission statements â€" especially at the department level â€" have stayed the same over the last two years? My guess: not many. Executing against a plan is hard. One needs to work tasks, involve others, track tasks to the plan, track tasks to completion and look hard at the plan to make sure it is still right given the feedback of the marketplace. Yet, delivery of work is critical to the Cubicle Warrior. Delivery is critical to the effectiveness of your personal brand. Innovation is essential to your work. Yet delivery of the innovation is the outward and visible sign of the inward and spiritual grace that you provide to your work. Reminds me of those hilarious IBM commercials. Great post. Reply […] Herrick over at CubeRules had a very interesting post today titled “Innovating Like Crazy; Executing Like Crap“. Great title and great thoughts in his post, including this one: Innovation is essential to […] Reply Scot â€" Nice post. The problem with innovation is that at some point you have to stop innovating and start delivering a product/service. Reply This is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules â€" . The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security. policies The content on this website is my opinion and will probably not reflect the views of my various employers. Apple, the Apple logo, iPad, Apple Watch and iPhone are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. I’m a big fan.