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To Invent Your Organization’s Future, Experiment, Question, Sometimes Fail

The industrial-age organization was not built for adaptability and innovation

“If you want to build innovative, adaptive capacity, there is no more powerful leverage than experimentation”
—Polly LaBarre.

Dawn Bailey
Wed, 05/24/2017 - 12:01
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Create an innovation advantage for your organization by letting go of industrial-age principles, embracing imagination, and experimenting even if you might fail, said Polly LaBarre, co-founder and director of Management Lab (MLab) and co-founder of MIX (Management Innovation eXchange). LaBarre, who delivered the 29th Annual Quest for Excellence Conference keynote presentation, said, “You cannot have some big opportunities without having some big misses.... Mistakes should be shared and picked apart for every last tidbit of insight.”

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LaBarre asked the conference audience, “How do you build the capacity for innovation and the adaptability that keeps your organization growing and thriving?” and, “Are you capable of changing as fast as the world is changing?... The next game changer probably will come out of nowhere. Your customers, patients, stakeholders have more information, more choice, higher expectations than ever before.... In that context, are you constitutionally adaptable?”

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