Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 7/02/18
My son used to come up with great ideas and excitedly present them to me. One, I believe, was for an electric toothbrush. I had to let him know, after congratulating him, that someone had been there first. But I admired his constant efforts. When I was consulting with Calgon, I convinced the president to foster innovation by giving out an award at the annual company conference for “the best idea that didn’t work,” thereby rewarding the behavior and not only a “victory.”
My cars, I’m sure like yours, have technology up the kazoo. My lights automatically dim and go bright, and I have an infrared camera that just recently showed us a deer alongside the road one night that wasn’t at all visible to the naked eye.
Driving the dogs for coffee today, I turned into a blinding sun on this gorgeous morning. I wondered why sun visors aren’t automatically lowered, and then I wondered why the upper part of the windshield doesn’t immediately gain shading, just like some eyeglasses do. The antenna and often WiFi are already in the windshield, so why not an auto-dimmer along the upper half, adjustable for your height (as is my “heads up” display on the windshield right now)? Is someone working on this? I’d buy it.
I’ve tried to do the same for my clients over the years. Solving problems is a commodity. But asking, “How can we make this still better, safer, faster, and/or more convenient?” is a high-value endeavor.
And asking the same question about our lives might just make all of us that much better.
Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow. —William Pollard
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