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Read a selection of your colleagues’ postings.
Respond to two or more of your colleagues in one or more of
the following ways:
· Select a question offered by your colleague that he/she did not
use and suggest potential ways that your colleague or the
organization might drive innovation and overcome the barriers
and status quo.
· Compare your colleague’s findings to those of others and your
own. If you see similarities, explain why the status quo might
appear similar across different workplaces and industries. Do
not limit your responses solely to budgetary or resourcing
constraints.
· Identify any challenges at a colleague’s workplace that seem
unique or that you have not encountered before. Offer your
ideas about why you think those are important and which
discovery skill from Dyer, et al., would best enable your
colleague and/or the organization to drive innovation and
overcome the barriers and status quo. Be sure to provide your
rationale for your choice.
· Offer your insights to your colleague about the value of this
process and importance of using it to identify opportunities for
innovation or opportunities to challenge the status quo.
Must use Responses Template below for each Colleague
Question Not Used by Colleague with Suggestions
Comparison of Colleagues Findings with Others and Your Own
Colleagues Workplace Unique Challenges. Use Dyer, et. Al.,
Rational
Insights to Colleagues on Value of the Process
APA References
1st Colleague to Respond to:

When it comes to my place of employment, I believe there are a
few status quos that could be changed/improved, from the day
to day tasks I deal with to little things that could be done
differently. With having this in mind, I have come up with the
following:
Ten Questions That Challenge the status Quo at Your Current
Workplace
- Why is it not as easy for employees whom are not
supervisors/leaders to have a say in change?
- How can we improve what is discussed during team meetings?
- What would it take for us to get a day for paperwork without
being penalized?
- What can we do to improve our outcomes with our clients?
- How can we better show improvement in gained and developed
skills?
- How can we increase the support provided by higher ups?
- How can we work on better managing time?
- Why do we make it difficult for employees to move up in this
work field?
- How can we increase profit within each department?
- How can we increase productivity among employees?
One Question for Further Analysis and Importance
After thinking and reading through my questions, I would feel
that the best question I choose for further analysis and
importance is the first one, which is: Why is it not as easy for
employees whom are not supervisors/leaders to have a say in
change?. I personally feel that this question takes place within
each of the other questions I chose. The questions I chose
originated from the perspective of a third party view, but also
from my own perspective as a current employee. As a current
employee within agency and department, I find that over time, it
has not been easy to be heard. I'll either receive a smart ass
reply or be surpassed. It is not to say that others' opinions are
not accounted for, but it is occurs at a very minimum. I believe
that if this were not a question, more innovation would take
place. Having this question posed and better explored would be

something of going against the status quo.
One discovery skill from Dyer, et al. (2009) to Overcome
Creativity Barriers
I believe that with my posed selected question, that all of the
discovery skills in the article, The Innovator's DNA (Dyer, et
al.,2009) would fit in some sort of way to assist in increasing
innovation. I think that the skills do fit most jobs and
innovations and changes within not only the work field but
within our personal life as well.
For this discussion I have chosen the discovery skill of number
4, which is experimenting. Again, like my chosen question, I
believe that the skill of experimenting incorporates the other
skills of associating, questioning, observing, and networking.
We are always experimenting something throughout different
stages in life - work and personal. I chose this skill for this
discussion because I believe that in order for the organization to
drive innovation and overcome creativity barriers as well as the
status quo, an organization/team must be able to explore the
different ways for this to occur, that-s part of the
experimenting. Giving employees a say for once in change and
ideas and giving them a chance to show what difference can be
made by their selected idea is part of experimenting and
definitely part of the innovation process. As it states in the
article, experimenting is a very important part of the innovation
process and as been used by several CEOs and big companies
such as with Jeff Bezos and Amazon and Steve Jobs and Apple
(Dyer, et al.,2009, pgs 4&5). It raises self-esteem and growth in
the individual and company.
APA References
Dyer, J. H., Gregersen, H. B., & Christensen, C. M. (2009). The
innovator’s DNA. Harvard Business Review, 87(12), 60–67.
2nd Colleague to Respond to:
Ten Questions That Challenge the status Quo at Your Current
Workplace

1. What if every employee understood how they got paid?
2. What if everyone in my department was more acceptance
of change?
3. What if everyone in my department came up with creative
solutions?
4. What if every procedure was systematic and manual
processes where a thing of the past?
5. What if each employee worked at their highest
performance level every day?
6. What if we truly rearranged the work environment to
influence more creativity?
7. What if everyone respected the Payroll Department?
8. What if employees had more down time to allow for
“idea time?”
9. What if everyone in my department could select their
own individual work schedule?
10. What if there was a better way for employees to contact
the Payroll Department (i.e., a ticket format)?
One Question for Further Analysis and Importance
If I had to select one question for further analysis that I thought
was most important, it would be question number one. What if
every employee understood how they got paid? This question is
not only important because we want every employee to
understand how their contract is paid, but solving this would
also decrease the number of calls and e-mails we get on a daily
basis. If people had more knowledge about how they got paid,
they would in return trust us more and have confidence in our
department. This is currently posing a barrier to innovation
because we spend too much time explaining the same thing over
and over again and we could be using this time for innovative
ideas. This question challenges the status quo of the
organization because there has always been an assumption that
our employees struggle to understand how they are paid and the
only answer given is to “call the Payroll Department” to find
out. For the reasons stated above, this is why I believe question

number one is an area that innovation might be needed and
welcomed.
One discovery skill from Dyer, et al. (2009) to Overcome
Creativity Barriers
Even though all five discovery skills are helpful, I was torn
between two to overcome creativity barriers and the status quo
that prompted my question number one to be selected for further
analysis. The first one was the skill of questioning which
challenge common wisdom and question the unquestionable
(Dyer, Gregersen, & Christensen, 2009). The second one was
the skill of networking which find and test ideas through a
network of diverse individuals to give innovators a radically
different perspective (Dyer et al., 2009). I found that the
discovery skill number two, questioning, would suite me best
for this exercise. Questioning enables me to ask things like: If
we did this, what would happen? Why do we do this? Why
should we stop doing this? And what if we did this? (Dyer et
al., 2009). In addition, I truly believe most managers simply
focus on how to make an existing process better, which is just
putting a Band-Aid on an issue instead of actually taking a step
back and challenging the assumptions (Dyer et al., 2009). The
current assumption in my organization is that most people do
not understand how they are paid and the standard protocol is to
wait until you receive your pay check, to then call the Payroll
Department and demand that they explain it to you. This is not
only reactive, no one has ever taken a step back and questioned
how to solve this barrier. Nothing good has come from this
status quo and I am determined to innovate a much needed
solution.
APA References
Dyer, J.H., Gregersen, H.B., & Christensen, C.M. (2009). The
Innovator’s DNA. Harvard Business Review, 87(12), 60-67.
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Campaign assignment
After 11 years as a police officer and 4 as a county constable,
Steve Radack was elected to represent Precinct 3 on Harris
County Commissioners' Court in 1988, and has served there
ever since. On the last day for candidates to file in December,
2019, Commissioner Radack announced he would not seek
reelection, setting off a scramble of candidates for one of the
most powerful positions in government.
The voters of Precinct 3 have leaned Republican over the past
30 years or so, but growth in the area's minority population
combined with the unpopularity of President Donald Trump
among suburban and exurban voters have made this a
competitive seat in a general election. Republican Donald
Trump carried this area in 2016, despite losing Harris County,
but Democrat Beto O'Rourke carried it in the 2018 senate race.
Before even getting to the general election, though, candidates
have to compete in party primary elections to become their
party's nominee.
For this assignment. You are now the virtual campaign manager
for a candidate for Harris County Commissioner, Precinct 3. If
your client is a Republican, they're trying to win the Republican
Primary. If your client is a Democrat, they're trying to win the
Democratic Primary. Don't worry about the November election
yet. If you were in charge, what would you do to help your
client get elected to this office?
Choose one of the candidates and design a campaign to win the
primary election. Write this assignment as a 2 - 5
page memorandum (memo)(with cited sources) from you, the
campaign manager, to your candidate. Outline the race for them,
how much money you think they need to raise, how you will
raise it for them, what you propose to spend it on, what issues
they should talk about, how you want to deliver their message,
etc.

Some things to keep in mind:
· Remember, party primaries are only for that party's voters. If
your candidate's a Republican, you're only campaigning to
Republican voters. If your candidate's a Democrat, you're only
campaigning to Democratic voters.
· Precinct 3 is huge - geographically and demographically. At
1.2 million, it has more people than Montana.
· Nearly half the population is not in the city limits of any city,
meaning county government is the only source of many
government services like law enforcement, parks, libraries and
code enforcement.
· If nobody in your primary race gets a majority (50% plus one)
of the vote, the top two finishers will go to a runoff election on
May 26. Will any voters still be paying attention on May 26?
· Not everybody who lives in Precinct 3 will vote in this
election. Some are under 18 years old, or they're not U.S.
citizens. Some simply won't register or show up. Some voters
just don't vote in party primaries. How do you target people
who are going to vote in this election?
· What sort of people live in your candidate's district. What
motivates them?
· What is your candidate's background and experience? What
will be his or her key issues?
· How much money will you need? How will you raise it? How
will you spend it?
· How will you get your message out? Be cautious about
television. Remember - anybody who lives outside Precinct 3
can't vote for or against your client. You'll waste a lot of money
if you use TV. Same with radio, although radio is a lot cheaper,
so some candidates think it's worth considering. If you use
direct mail, you can mail only to people who are registered to
vote. Or, you can be more surgical - only people registered to
vote who voted in the 2018 general election, for example.
This can be a challenging assignment, but it can also be a lot of
fun. Keep in mind that campaigning is more art than science,
and that there are few absolutely right or wrong answers. If I

asked five campaign professionals to do this assignment for the
same candidate, I would probably get five totally different
campaign strategies (and they'd charge me a lot of money).
Hint: Remember, this is a memo to your client, not an
essay about your client. Talk to your client. Do not spend the
first page telling them where they were born, where they went
to college or how many kids they have - they know this already.
Talk to them about your strategy to win the election for them.
Submit in Word. Cite your sources.
Additional Resources
Wait...what's a
"memo?" https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/subject_specific_writing/p
rofessional_technical_writing/memos/sample_memo.html (Links
to an external site.)
Here are the candidates:
Republicans
· Tom Ramsey - https://votetomramsey.com/ (Links to an
external site.)
· Susan Sample - https://votesusansample.com/ (Links to an
external site.)
· Brenda Stardig - https://votebrendastardig.com/ (Links to an
external site.)
Democrats
· Diana Martinez Alexander -
https://www.dianaalexander2020.com/ (Links to an external
site.)
· Zaher Aisa - (no website yet, but he has a Facebook page)
· Erik "Beto" Hassan -
· Michael Moore - https://mooreforcommissioner.com/ (Links to
an external site.)
· Morris Overstreet - (no website yet, but he has a Facebook
page)
· Kristi Thibaut - https://kristithibaut.com/ (Links to an external
site.)
Some facts about Precinct
3: http://www.pct3.com/Portals/45/about/about-

pct3.pdf?ver=2019-10-14-085414-447 (Links to an external
site.)
This Harris County Population Report has some useful
information about Precinct
3: https://budget.harriscountytx.gov/doc/Budget/fy2020/approve
d_budget/FY20_Population_Report.pdf (Links to an external
site.)
Here's a more detailed map of Precinct 3 with all the county
facilities: http://www.pct3.com/Portals/45/about/maps/pct3_map
.pdf?ver=2019-10-14-085347-443 (Links to an external site.)
Liberal blogger Charles Kuffner spends a lot of time covering
local elections, including posts of interviews with candidates:
http://offthekuff.com/mt/
Another local blog, Big Jolly Politics, has a lot on local
elections:
http://www.bigjolly.com/
Campaigns and Elections Magazine editor Ron Faucheaux has
an article called "Writing your campaign plan: the seven
components for winning an election":
http://books.google.com/books?id=hWa9QYkFYe4C&lpg=PA66
&ots=fPoZLGe3m2&dq=campaign%20plan%20Faucheux&pg=P
A66#v=onepage&q=campaign%20plan%20Faucheux&f=false

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