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Is Being Creative a Problem ? ....The watchout


There is a great possibility that ideas could be destroying your organization. Puzzled? Join the gang as I was too until I read the article creativity in not enough. Ideas for the sake of ideas without rigorous implementation models and follow up lead to organizational chaos. 
Typically successful ideation models have proven to be successful when the organization insider, the apparent conformist has driven an idea through evaluation, implementation and follow up. 

This Harvard Business Review article is a thought provoking article on this topic ... Here is the synopis of the article ....

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