Innovating, leading an doing it now

As you may have read yesterday, innovation is dear to my heart. So is strong leadership. Just following or “keeping up” is never a satisfying feeling as it brings far too much stress; one gets the sense of always running around, being on the defensive and having that sinking feeling of leaving things out. Leading is much simpler, yet so much more exhilarating as it make you a trailblazer and brings both a sense of excitement and discovery.

Lastly, if you are convinced that innovation and leadership are indeed the right things to do at a particular moment, it's no longer acceptable to delay their implementation. The “we'll do it later approach” is never acceptable as it constitutes an open door for not doing what we ought to. Instead, if it can physically get done now, it should. Call it “implementation as you go” if you will, but that simple habit hoists you up faster, affirms your leadership and overtime builds your competitive advantage...