Comments on: Operation FireFly: Igniting Innovation Inside Your Company! http://www.fireflyfacilitation.com/blog/2009/12/operation-firefly-igniting-innovation-inside-your-company/ The Whiteboard Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:44:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Kimberly http://www.fireflyfacilitation.com/blog/2009/12/operation-firefly-igniting-innovation-inside-your-company/comment-page-1/#comment-47 Kimberly Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:34:22 +0000 http://www.fireflyfacilitation.com/blog/?p=182#comment-47 Mark, thank you so much for your thoughtful and insightful comments - especially what you see as the mark of true competitiveness in those winning workplaces. I think 2010 is going to be the year of "everyday innovation"! Mark, thank you so much for your thoughtful and insightful comments – especially what you see as the mark of true competitiveness in those winning workplaces. I think 2010 is going to be the year of “everyday innovation”!

]]> By: Mark http://www.fireflyfacilitation.com/blog/2009/12/operation-firefly-igniting-innovation-inside-your-company/comment-page-1/#comment-38 Mark Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:55:04 +0000 http://www.fireflyfacilitation.com/blog/?p=182#comment-38 Nice post, Kimberly. I especially agree with your third tip. I think too many companies, even small ones with less hierarchies, get hung up in being politically correct and creating workplace cultures where lower-level employees areinclined to give a stamp to whatever their supervisor says, even if they feel the customer or client would be best served by taking a different tack. The nonprofit I work for runs an annual top small company workplaces competition, and one of the themes we've seen among firms that rise to the top each year is that a culture that encourages failure (granted, *fast* failure with an emphasis on quickly moving forward) can produce great results long-term when it comes to the company's value proposition, marketplace competitiveness, and customer satisfaction/evangelism. Nice post, Kimberly. I especially agree with your third tip. I think too many companies, even small ones with less hierarchies, get hung up in being politically correct and creating workplace cultures where lower-level employees areinclined to give a stamp to whatever their supervisor says, even if they feel the customer or client would be best served by taking a different tack.

The nonprofit I work for runs an annual top small company workplaces competition, and one of the themes we’ve seen among firms that rise to the top each year is that a culture that encourages failure (granted, *fast* failure with an emphasis on quickly moving forward) can produce great results long-term when it comes to the company’s value proposition, marketplace competitiveness, and customer satisfaction/evangelism.

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