Innovation: What Living Outside the Box
Really Means in Terms of Your Career
Gone are the days
where to really make an impact in your career, you had to prove yourself to
be the best little worker bee out there. While having a strong work ethic
and the determination to accomplish any task that you're given are always
important regardless of the business you're talking about, they have been
superseded in recent years by something much more important: innovation.
According to a study conducted by Fast Company.com, employers are
increasingly looking not at the surface-level work histories of applicants
when hiring new employees, but at their history of innovation. Employers
want critical thinkers because critical thinkers don't just get the job
done - they flip the job on its head and do it in a way better than anyone
ever has before.
If you really want to use this idea to your advantage and lay the
foundation for positive growth in terms of your career, it isn't good
enough to just think outside the box. "Outside the box" just
officially became your new home.
Innovation and Your Career: A Match Made in Heaven
Life is full of unpredictability. The major benefit of making an effort to
not only think outside the box but to make it your permanent home comes
down to metamorphosis. Emphasizing innovation throughout all aspects of
your life doesn't just make you more adept at dealing with change - it
allows you to embrace change. It allows you to go beneath the surface of a
situation and take anything you find, good or bad, and turn it into
something that can help propel you forward.
If you've developed a reputation as an innovator, you instantly make
yourself more valuable in most businesses because "innovation"
and "saving money" are synonyms. Being an innovator means that
you can use limited resources combined with your passion, your drive, and
the sheer force of your creativity to not just solve a problem, but to
accomplish something.
Innovation: Bringing it All Back Together Again
Innovators bring true value to a situation or environment. They're not
followers. They're leaders. If you can truly train yourself to think with
an eye towards innovation in everything you do, you're creating the type of
situation in your career where the definition of "success" doesn't
matter, as it will always be well within arm's reach.
These are just a few of the reasons why making a constant effort to live
"outside the box" is so important. In the short-term, it makes
you a much more valuable employee who is able to solve challenges, and
allows you to come up with creative solutions that allow a business to
stand apart from the competition and more. In the long-term, it makes YOU a
much more valuable commodity. It doesn't just teach you how to naturally
overcome any curve ball that your career goals may throw at you. By
creating a situation where innovation is built into your very instincts, it
teaches you how to naturally use ANYTHING that life may throw at you to
your advantage.
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