{"id":5738,"date":"2011-11-29T13:57:20","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T18:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devwp.davison.com\/blog\/?p=5738"},"modified":"2011-11-29T13:57:20","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T18:57:20","slug":"excuses-excuses-excuses-theres-no-reason-to-not-innovate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/blog\/excuses-excuses-excuses-theres-no-reason-to-not-innovate\/","title":{"rendered":"Excuses, Excuses, Excuses\u2026 There\u2019s NO Reason to NOT Innovate!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5740 photo\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/No-Excuses.jpg\" alt=\"Inventing Advice\" width=\"221\" height=\"221\" \/>With the recent release of Apple\u2019s latest version of the iPhone and all the other recent technological advancements, it is obvious, innovation is king!<\/p>\n<p>So, how could someone have an excuse for not at least trying to be innovative?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We found 100 lame excuses that people give to NOT innovate!\u00a0 We\u2019ve picked 15, but you can read the entire list <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ideachampions.com\/weblogs\/archives\/2011\/09\/the_top_100_lam.shtml\">here!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Heard any of these before?<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0 It\u2019s an idea too far ahead of its time.<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0 We\u2019re in a down economy.<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0 I\u2019m getting close to retirement.<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never done anything like this before.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/idea.jpg\" alt=\"Innovation\" width=\"258\" height=\"343\" \/>5.\u00a0 I\u2019ve tried before and failed.<\/p>\n<p>6.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure how to begin.<\/p>\n<p>7.\u00a0 Maybe next year.<\/p>\n<p>8.\u00a0 I\u2019m just not the creative type.<\/p>\n<p>9.\u00a0 I\u2019m not good at presenting my ideas.<\/p>\n<p>10.\u00a0 I don\u2019t have the time.<\/p>\n<p>11.\u00a0 We\u2019re not in the kind of business likely to innovate.<\/p>\n<p>12.\u00a0 No one, besides me, really cares about innovation.<\/p>\n<p>13.\u00a0 I won\u2019t be able to get enough resources.<\/p>\n<p>14.\u00a0 If it ain\u2019t broke, don\u2019t fix it.<\/p>\n<p>15.\u00a0 Nothing ever changes around here.<\/p>\n<p>What excuses will they think of next?!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ideachampions.com\/weblogs\/archives\/2011\/09\/the_top_100_lam.shtml\">Read all 100 excuses here<\/a> \u2013 they even included ways to move beyond the excuses at the bottom of the page!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the recent release of Apple\u2019s latest version of the iPhone and all the other recent technological advancements, it is obvious, innovation is king! So, how could someone have an excuse for not at least trying to be innovative?\u00a0 We found 100 lame excuses that people give to NOT innovate!\u00a0 We\u2019ve picked 15, but you &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[72,60,61,178],"class_list":["post-5738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inventing-advice","tag-innovation","tag-inventing","tag-inventing-advice","tag-tips-for-inventing"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Excuses, Excuses, Excuses\u2026 There\u2019s NO Reason to NOT Innovate! - Davison<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Davison confidentially works with people to develop their new product ideas. 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