Practice makes perfect
Innovation and creativity are increasingly celebrated in today's knowledge economy, and quite rightly so. But it's getting to the point where some people are even re-characterising the Industrial Age as a time of look-alike factories, mechanical efficiency and rigid specialisation (forgetting that these were all incredible innovations at the time), and painting our own age as one of more enlightened innovation. For the avoidance of doubt - knowledge, creativity and innovation are critical. But it's somewhat ironic that one manifestation of this current celebration of creativity is that everyone's mostly jumping on the same bandwagons - cryptocurrency, blockchain, artificial intelligence - and hordes of people have suddenly become "passionate advocates for innovation and disruption" on LinkedIn :D Everyone wants to be the high-level conceptual knowledge consultant, no one wants to be the guy doing work in the trenches. So let me sound a slightly different ton...