Innovation should take inspiration from an expanded view of the Performing Arts - the Empathetic Arts. The world of innovation has much to learn, benefit, and profit from audience-centric collaboration that has a great employee experience.

Manage your team like a factory because you want discipline, predictability, rhythm. Manage like a factory because you care about speed, quality, and waste.

Although your innovation team is not literally a theater company, you should manage it like one because you want all the same things: a great environment, a great story for your customers, a great experience for your actors, auditions for the right roles, a sense of belonging, low re-invention of the wheel, and the integration of numerous moving parts. Memories, Moments That Matter, and a Standing Ovation.

Which of your culture traits can you trace to impacting your quality? Consider purpose, defects, favoritism, loyalty, fairness, fear, franticness, task conflict, personality conflict, career security, job security, optimizing globally, optimizing locally. Fix your culture. Fix your Quality.

Which of your culture traits can you trace to impacting your speed? Consider trust, ambiguity, interruptions, fatigue, burnout, bottlenecks, egos, hero mentality, simplicity, complexity, silos, bureaucracy, meeting gridlock, and email overload. Fix your culture. Fix your Speed.

Your organization might not literally be a factory, but you should manage it like one. You care about all the same things: speed, quality, waste, and more! Avoid abandonment and chaos. Pursue movement and rhythm in your methodology and culture.

Use Five Verbs to pace, synchronize, and assign building your project’s Asset Portfolio.

Which of your culture traits can you trace to impacting your automation? Consider whether technology and data is your master or your servant. Consider whether Technology runs your business or if Business Runs Your Business.

Which of your culture traits can you trace to impacting ease in innovation? Consider Earn versus Burn, smart use of meetings and emails, and documentation that is clearly useful. Good methodology makes innovation look easy.