Foreword
Innovation occurs when a creative solution makes its way to market. It runs the world, from business to society. We have problems that need engaged people willing to finish what they start. It's not about coming up with new ideas. That's a recipe for procrastination and nonexecution. To truly harness innovation, you need to leverage a culture that will stop at nothing to fix bad ideas and stomp out mediocrity. And that requires trust-based leadership.
And that's what this book is all about.
How do we get engaged and emerge as leaders and relentless problem solvers? We arrive at a psychological intersection: purpose and passion. We combine our emotions, mental faculty, and sense of spirit. Often, this happens because there is someone in our lives who challenges us or inspires us to dig deep and find energy. When we do, we detect something powerful that draws us in, and we innovate.
Let Shawn be your guiding force, and allow this book to be the device that helps you open your eyes for worthy problems to address; open your ears for feedback about your creative solutions; and open your heart to the importance of your task, and the suffering you are addressing—be it an inconvenience or true misery.
This book will take you on a journey, offering you helpful pieces of advice that will build up to a personal system of innovation mastery. Once you crack the code of self-engagement, finishing what you start will be a snap.
Along the way, Shawn will give you a well-researched glimpse ...
