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Creativity is generating useful ideas.
Innovation is being able to implement an idea.
This is why “creativity” is worthless without a change.
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(photo: Yesterday before sunrise. Coming home from dropping Cheryl off at airport. The truck’s tagline is inspiring.)
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Challenging the status quo. Almost always at the chagrin of authority.
It would be easier, of course, to simply accept the critical mass (momentum) of the herd – aka status quo.
The way we’ve always done things.
Predictable.
Safe.
Go with the flow.
Nothing wrong with these things.
Unless you talk all the time about innovation.
Then you sort of suck if you don’t actually challenge everything.
Taking risks is risky. So is playing it safe.
But it just doesn’t feel right.
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If you don’t continue to innovate, someone else will. Duh, right? But wait…
My friend reminds us, “To know is to do. To know and not do, is to not yet know.”
Last week, while jogging, I took these two photos. Remember albums? At one time, record albums where the latest technology. Now they’re trash.
It makes me think about social media marketing. A lot.
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Following up from last Thursday’s question about whether there’s a difference between transformation and inspiration. You need one to get the other, but having only one does not automatically guarantee the other. Stay with me here.
How would you describe the fundamental difference between creativity and innovation? Can you even separate the two? Here’s what I believe:
Creativity is the act of generating potentially useful ideas, in any domain.
Innovation is the act of implementing a useful idea.
Anyone can dream.
Not every one can make those dreams come true.
Creativity means nothing without innovation.
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Creativity and Innovation are everywhere, but you have to want it badly enough to do the hard work, the work that most aren’t willing to do. Like this: