Actually, this heading intended for this post was "Why should the newcomers learn?", but standing on the shoulders of the recent post, it is now about newcomer innovation, but other newcomers than those in the recent post.
Because when an organization meets new people who come to it, there are two kinds of beginners - the obvious ones from yesterday, who are to learn how to act in the organization, and they less obvious yet not less interesting: those who are already part of the organization and who need inspiration to think differently - a field within which they can easily be as much beginners as the newcomers to they are facing.
The headline did not end up as it was originally thought. Of course, I do not imply that new people in an organization should not learn how the organization works, or learn how to work with it - but I'd love to use this post, on top of the recent one, to point out that the organization should take it as an obvious task to make sure to make use of all the useful new energy from these people before they unlearn whatever exciting arts they knew of before they sunk into the organization's conformance.
I explicitly write "a task". I could have written "a duty", I maybe should - but let me restrict myself to saying that unless you learn from the new ones before starting to teach them, you lose an important possible step in an innovation process.
(Translated from Innovation for (andre) begyndere, originally published December 26th, 2012)
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