10 Ways to Recognize the Innovators In Your Organization

Posted by Chris Flanagan on December 16, 2009

Can you recognize an innovator when you meet one? In his latest Mass High Tech column, BIF founder Saul Kaplan offers the 10 behavioral characteristics he uses to recognize an innovator. "If the game is to identify and connect the innovators, how do you identify them and ensure that they have the resources and freedom to innovate?" After years of honing his targeting and selection process, here are Saul's first five traits:

1. Innovators think there is a better way.
2. Innovators know that without passion there can be no innovation.
3. Innovators embrace change to a fault.
4. Innovators have a strong point of view but know that they are missing something.
5. Innovators know innovation is a team sport.

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