The Innovators' Drama
The innovators drama is a book about dealing with being stuck during transformations.
To transform, we need to innovate. And to innovate, we need to deal with plenty of dramas.
A few years into my work as an innovation management advisor and coach, I had a Eureka moment. It happened when a project I had advised at the time felt stuck.
Instead of brainstorming progress, we were engaged in a Sisyphean attempt to pushthrough pushbacks. Reflecting on the meeting as I made notes to myself, my inner voice whispered - It’s not the dilemma1, I thought; it’s the drama.
Since that moment, I became increasingly curious about the dramas that innovation operations bring with them and how we can articulate, communicate and attend to them better and faster before they blow up and consume our windows of opportunity.
With the current pace of change, we need to innovate and transform faster, more efficiently, and more effectively. And this means overcoming dramas sooner than later.
This Substack is one of the ways that I’m publishing my book “The Innovators Drama.” I intend to publish chapters from the book and accompany them with reflections and observations on the part dramas play in our lives and the part they could take in our futures.
I will argue that dramas are a sophisticated social technology that got misused in historic times. And I will introduce a method for clarifying dramas, decomposing wicked problems, and guiding attention to core issues that undermine impact and transformations.
If you feel that your personal and organizational prosperities are somewhat stuck? This book will provide tools, ideas, and examples for revitalizing creative flow in any situation - just by finding an agreeable source of drama.
Subscribe to this Substack to read the Innovators Drama. Learn to turn any drama into clear and tangible tasks. And see how you can transform faster than the pace of change.
The Innovators Dilemma by Clayton Christensen is the first part of a series of groundbreaking observations on business transformations, disruptive innovations, and innovation management.
First published in 1997, The Innovators Dilemma is a must-read for any innovator that wants to change the world, leave a dent in the universe and be more sensible to currents that take us to different futures.
Inspired by Christensen's works, I became increasingly aware of yet another dilemma or drama that disruptors and disrupted experiences - How to communicate innovation dilemmas faster and better to versatile audiences with different levels of innovation mastery and creative maturity?
In my book The Innovators Drama, I plan to continue some of the wise ideas studied and promoted by the late Prof Christensen.