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5 Reasons Innovation Has an Ethical Component

Posted by Tim Sharp on December 2, 2014 in Leadership | Views



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I define innovation as the ability to sustain a creative solution to a challenge or a problem. As I apply innovation to my work, I have started to see that there is an ethic at work as we apply innovation to the working out of our mission and various tasks.

I use the word “ethic” because I believe innovation is about the business of doing good. In the realm of technology, new innovations come from the pursuit of a better, more effective, or more efficient way of doing something. As I project innovative work to the various aspects of my own work, I offer the following ethical framework that guides my thinking and method of evaluation for innovative pursuits:

5 Reasons Innovation Has an Ethical Component

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  • Innovation is Collaborative: transformational ideas work across various lines of engagement and benefit from the collaborative power that comes as a result of working through tension and diversity;
  • Innovation is Sustainable: creativity is fun and interesting, but true innovation is sustainable. Sustainability reflects the best use of our resources in the long term;
  • Innovation is Democratic: sustainable creative ideas come as a result of real people working with real people, not someone engineering something for someone else;
  • Innovation is Humanistic: addressing challenges through human ingenuity, imagination and entrepreneurialism that can come from anywhere;
  • Innovation is Non-Elitist: As we work innovatively, we draw ideas from many different sources and then work with a variety of people as we incubate those ideas toward scalable innovations.

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About the Author

Tim Sharp

Tim Sharp is Executive Director of the American Choral Directors Association. Dr. Sharp pursues an aggressive agenda of progressive initiatives to keep ACDA energized and relevant in the 21st century, inspiring ACDA’s membership to excellence in choral music performance, education, composition, and advocacy. Tim is also in his fifth season as Artistic Director of the Tulsa Oratorio Chorus, Tulsa, where critics characterize his performances as having “stunning power” and “great passion and precision”.

Sharp’s publications include Mentoring in the Ensemble Arts, Precision Conducting, Up Front! Becoming the Complete Choral Conductor, Jubilate! Amen!, and Collaborative Creativity. His most recent publication is the historical-critical edition Johannes Herbst: Hymns to be Sung at the Pianoforte. Published compositions and arrangements exhibit his interest in conceptual programming as seen in the collections Salvation is Created, An Early American Service of Lessons and Carols, the young voices series including Christmas Messiah for Young Voices, his own choral series through Gentry Publications, and A High Lonesome Bluegrass Mass, in which he regularly performs as a guest banjo player.

Tim received undergraduate degree at Belmont University, and his MCM and DMA degree from The School of Church Music, Louisville, KY.

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