The Leadership Japan Series By Dale Carnegie Training Japan

Chaos, Mistakes and Idea Popping   Doing more, better, faster with less, screams out for innovation.  This could be at the incremental level – a kaizen approach of continuous improvement or it could be breakthrough leaps that forge new businesses.  Either way, there is a dynamic in play here between processes and people that is critical for our success.  How much scope can we allow in the creative process?  At the practical level, this is really asking how many and how huge are the mistakes you will tolerate to achieve idea popping?   Managers manage processes. Leader also manage processes, but they also have an important role to build people with ideas.  In any workplace there will be some degree of compliance required around regulations, laws, safety concerns etc.  If these are overly tight, then there is usually not a great deal of tolerance for errors.  If it is a complete laissez-faire environment, with no controls, then we will wind up in court and possibly in jail.  Somewhere between compliance and cha