Images

SKILL 49

Practice Creativity, Innovation, and Appropriate Risk Taking

Your propensity for creativity, innovation, and appropriate risk taking plays a part in how your organization creates new products and services to enable employees and customers to do tasks better or do things they couldn’t before. Creativity is the act of conceiving something original or unusual. Risk taking is the act of doing something with an uncertain outcome. “Appropriate” risk taking means that research and thoughtful consideration preceded the risk to reduce the amount of uncertainty and to ensure relevance. Both creativity and risk are required for innovation to occur—or ...

Get Skills for Career Success now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.