Harvard Business Review had a great post last week entitled “5 Warning Signs That Your Innovation Efforts are Going Off the Rails.” I had to chuckle as I read the post – focused on how to make innovation efforts a partnership with the core business focus, instead of a competition. I didn’t chuckle because it was amusing. I chuckled because I’ve seen all five ‘warning signs’ touted as the foundations of the innovation effort, not as unwanted by-products. We’re often proud to be operating in a way that produces just these signs. How wrong is that? Based on a number of status quo approaches, we set up innovation as a competitor to our current model. It’s time we changed those status quos! We create a separate team. I actually recommend this is part of my consulting. When exploring new avenues we often need a focused team. But that doesn’t …