Innovation is about offering value and changing the world. If you innovate to bring a difference in people’s lives, the money will follow eventually. But money shouldn’t be your first agenda.

Make Meaning, Not Money

Your meaning leads to mantra which is the summary of the difference you want to make. Stick to 2 to 3 words mission statement that summarises what you do. The shorter the mission statement the more clearer your path is.

Make A Mantra, Not Mission

Don’t stick to achieving 10% better from your current innovation. Create something new instead of continuously working on the existing product. Don’t limit yourself and stick to the same curve. Move to the next one.

Jump To The Next Curve.

Features of great innovation:<ul><li>Deep – The features and functionalities of great innovation are deep.</li><li>Intelligent – At the same time, great innovation is intelligent. Ford’s MyKey can control the top speed of the car through the key. Quite smart!</li><li>Complete – You can differentiate great products from mediocre by their totality, their completeness.</li><li>Empowering – Innovations that enhance your life and way of working are empowering products. They have the capability to change your life.</li><li>Elegance – An innovation offers a great design and user experience.</li></ul>

Roll The DICEE

Don’t wait for perfection when you innovate. A valuable innovation can have elements of crappiness.So, don’t worry about the flaws. Instead, ship your innovation with revolutionary outcomes. If it’s on the next curve, elements of crappiness don’t matter.

Dont Worry, Be Crappy

Your product may solve a particular problem. And you may have a specific audience in mind. Later, your product could be used & perceived in a new way by people you had never thought of.The positioning of your innovation ultimately comes down to what consumers decide. But don’t worry about that. Allow a hundred flowers to bloom from one seed and cherish a garden.

Let 100 Flowers Blossom

Be ready to polarize people with your innovations. Who says a great innovation doesn’t have critics? Your innovation might make only a small segment of people happy.Apple is a typical example. Those who don’t use an iPhone criticize it for its cost and niche features. But only an apple user has the heart to shell out what they pay for.So, don’t worry if your innovation draws negative attention. Worry if people are indifferent about it.

Polarise People

When you ship your product with a bit of crappiness, you have a scope to improve. Make new versions of your innovation, and then create another better version. Keep evolving to make a great product.

Churn Baby Churn

A great product is both valuable and unique. If your innovation is missing any of these, it might fall into the trope of mediocrity.

Niche Yourself

Naysayers will interrupt and criticize. Don’t let bozos bog down your spirits.Bozos are either the losers themselves or the rich and famous people you might perceive as correct in negating your meaning and mantra. They are still stuck in their curves and don’t appreciate the next curve you are standing at.

Dont Let The Bozoz Grind You Down

Follow the 10-20-30 rule:Have 10 slides to proposition your product. Explain these slides in 20 minutes and use 30 points fonts. With these fonts and 10 slides, you are bound to explain your innovation succinctly—need of the time.

Perfect Your Pitch

Great ideas are not lacking, its the art of innovation that does. Therefore, these 10 tips are recommendedto all entrepreneurs or product owners who are responsible for innovation.

Conclusion

We all come up with ideas everyday. Some od those of those ideas have the potential to revolutionalize mankind. These tips will help many entrepreneurs, thinkers and innovators to go a step further in packaging their ideas, delivering and executing them.

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Win win.

All of us can change. Choose a specific area you want to grow and make consistent effort to achieve your goal. "What’s not growing is as good as dead, so don’t die while you are still breathing”

Personal growth.

“If people just took it a day at a time, they’d be a lot happier.” ― Richard Bachman

A day at a time.

Dont get absorbed to thinking people watch and interested in your every every move. Just live your life to the fullest.

You are not important.

Choose your circle wisely; people who match your standards, people who add something in your life and not substract.

Find your tribe and stick to it.

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” — Arthur AsheAnza tu!

Start with what you have.

Allow people to be who they are, have their own bodies, ideas etc, while you also habe yours. “It’s coexistence or no existence.” — Bertrand Russell

Coexist.

Organise your life putting everyone where they should be. This helps balance expectations and bring clarity on who has to do what in your life.

Compartmentalize your life.

Children are given to us by virtue of responsibility but not possession. Your children are their own people.

Your kids are not yours.

People will always value you with what you have tagged yourself, and so know your price and then add some.

They will pay what you price yourself.

“Our focus is our future and what we focus on will multiply in our life.” — David DeNotaris.

Your get what you focus on.

Of all the skills of leadership, listening is the most valuable — and one of the least understood. Most captains of industry listen only sometimes, and they remain ordinary leaders. But a few, the great ones, never stop listening. That’s how they get word before anyone else of unseen problems and opportunities.” — Peter Nulty,Fortune Magazine

A leaders power is on his ears.

“Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.” — Jim Rohn

Time matters.

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