How to Prevent Innovation
Posted on December 19, 2006 Comments (1)
Top ten tips for preventing innovation give some great ideas many companies are already doing but you may find some your company hasn’t mastered 
For example:
Make performance reviews easy. Create some easy-to-measure metrics (like # of sick-days taken, # of powerpoint slides created, # of meetings attended), and use those for performance reviews. People always gravitate toward the metric. We can run the reviews with a minimum of effort, giving us more time to tell them how to do their jobs. Just an hour a year. Some managers can give feedback in 15 minutes.
The performance appraisal systems used now, are a great way to stifle innovation. If you actually want to look at encouraging innovation, see some of our posts on innovation.
Related: Better and Different – Performance Appraisal Problems – Quality and Innovation – Dr. Deming on Performance Appraisal
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