Survival Innovators – Creativity When It Matters Most
When disruptive crises hit, most people try to hold on and survive the day. But some go further. They improvise, act fast, and create solutions that others can use as well. These are the survival innovators.
A survival innovator doesn’t wait for perfect plans or big budgets like traditional growth innovators. They work with what’s at hand, driven by values instead of economic value. They think in hours or days, not months or years. Their goal is simple: staying alive and above all, help others do the same.
You can find them online & offline outside of the traditional dinosaur management world. During Covid-19, when distilleries produced disinfectant and restaurants reinvented themselves overnight. When after ChatGPT was launched many solopreneurs online shared real practical AI productivity hacks, real AI creativity hacks and real AI money hacks to keep earning during the online shakeout and to help others to do the same.
And of course in Ukraine since 2022, where civilians, online networks and new types of startups & scaleups design and produce drones and apps to save lives of civilans and of soldiers at the front line, at sea and in the air. Not by using The Lean Startup and value-based VC-funding but by crowdfunding and diifferent types values-based collaborations with people and governments that shae the same values and norms.
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Survival innovators matter because they turn chaos into resilience. Their quick fixes ripple outward — one idea copied many times becomes a lifeline for a whole company, community or even country.
These people remind us of something essential: survival is not only about enduring, but about helping people, organizations and even countries to create and implement solutions fast and at low-cost. Solutions that help youself and above all other people, organizations and countries and even groups of countries to survive today.
👉 In short: Survival innovators are about acting right now in any crisis — improvise quick, practical fixes and solutions to others survive today.
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Tony de Bree
