Innovation and Efficiency can’t sit together
There is a serious issue with many Multi-National Companies. It’s the way they portray themselves to the employees.
“Towards innovation and sustainability”
Many companies showcase this wonder-land quote to their employees. Blabbering hours together on how their company is oriented towards innovation and sustainability.
In most of the lectures, employers state that their company stays afloat by encouraging innovation among there employees. This is an absurd, one can see through this clearly if you just go to the organization and work there for few days.
There are handful people in an organization who work on the real innovating or on research.
The company can’t afford everyone of it’s employees to sit in the lab and shut themselves to the outside world until they make a breakthrough.
Many have to work in routine jobs for the company in order to afford the cost involved in research.
Not everyone walk in and start research career, even if he’s ready to give it everything he has. Generally these researchers are PhD holders or sometimes multiple PhD holders.
Why are these companies deceiving the employees
There are various reasons why they do that:
- The new recruits can’t handle the fact that they have to be patient in order to make an impact. The companies give them hope on false promises and inevitably they reneged.
- The buzzword innovation attracts a lot of attention. This makes few companies to put out a facade as an innovation oriented organization.
But Companies can’t afford a innovation is because they are required to be efficient in order keep floating.
Innovation can never be efficient
Innovation is to solve a problem in an unique way. This happens only through cycles of trial and error. Only when being persistent one can innovate. This is no place for efficiency.
I want to share this thought of mine, to the upcoming entrepreneurs please don’t keep innovation and efficiency together. Don’t feel the peer pressure and just put out words that are catchy.
This thought of mine was provoked by Simon Sinek’s video on youtube
