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100 Lamest Excuses

11. I’m not good at presenting my ideas.
12. No one, besides me, really cares about innovation.
13. There’s too much bureaucracy here to get anything done.
14. Our customers aren’t asking for it.
15. We’re a risk averse culture. Always will be. 
16. We don’t have an innovation process.
17. We don’t have a culture of innovation.

Have you heard any of these? Have you said them?

4 Responses to “100 Lamest Excuses”

  1. Sean Walton Says:

    You forgot “The Library Faculty Council needs to forward this to the Web Services Team, that will send it off to Systems, who will send it back to Web Services, that will then send it to the Dean Technology Advisory Committee,back to Web Services, then back to the full Faculty Committee, who usually sends it back to the Library Faculty Council.”

    I call it the “Circle of Strife”.

  2. Matthew Thomas Says:

    My favourite is “Oh no, not another one of Matthew’s crazy ideas!”

    Maybe I’m the only one who get’s that excuse. LOL

  3. Anonymous Says:

    the one who did this job before me, also didn’t do it….

  4. CBS Bibliotek » Blog Archive » Tanker om en biblioteksblog og innovation Says:

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