Tag: flywheel

  • 7 Ways to Build a Sustainable Movement

    A flywheel is needed to build a sustainable movement.
    A flywheel is a rotating mechanical device that is used to store rotational energy.

    Want to see change? Don’t start a church. Don’t start a business. Don’t hire a bunch of experts.

    Those things are great. But they are a bit finite in their ability to affect macro-level-change in society.

    Instead, start a movement of people.

    And if you really want to see change, start a sustainable movement. As in, something that’ll go beyond you, outpace you, and grow bigger than you can imagine.

    A sustainable movement starts with you and grows a life of its own.

    It is possible. It is within your skill set. And it just might be what God wants you to do. 

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  • Front-line innovation

    Brilliant.

    Putting a flywheel on a bike to store lost energy? I ride my bike quite a bit, it’s the cheapest and fastest way I can get around town. This is a relatively simple solution for wasted energy of stopping for a red light.

    Here’s what I know about innovation. It’s never come out of a big companies R&D department. Professional R&D departments are a waste of corporate dollars largely because there is a tie between desperation and innovation.

    There are only 2 reliable sources of innovation, in my experience.

    1. Hungry entrepreneurs – Desperate for their next paycheck, backed against the wall, misunderstood and unappreciated, many of our best inventions came from these people.
    2. Front-line soft innovations – A core problem with companies who fail to create new ideas is that they don’t listen to the people doing the work. They might be friendly with them but they don’t truly listen to the solutions their front-line workers say they need every day.

    What does that have to do with you? Everything. Our society is desperate for brand new freshly minted inventions. And those of us who manage people need to develop regular ways to listen to the front-line workers– elevating their ideas to the position where they can create the sof-innovation you need.