Thanks to Mike Docherty at Innovation.net for pointing me to this study (must sign up to read the whole thing) by Strategos measuring barriers to innovation across a wide variety of industries. The top five barriers to innovation:

Short term focus/ focus on operations (63%)
Lack of time, resources or staff (52%)
Lack of systematic innovation process (33%)
Leadership expects payoff sooner than is expected (31%)
Management incentives not structured to reward innovation (31%)

Does this sound familiar lawyers?

You can't innovate if you don't take time to focus on the future as well as the present. This is a problem I've been having myself. I have been so torn between completing our new business model and serving existing clients that I am running on fumes. I've just finished "The Now Habit" and am planning a week of "French Hours" beginning Saturday. I have several posts I'll get up before then, but then this blog will go silent for seven days. Promise me you won't forget me while I'm gone.