TheThreePercent is a support network for innovators.

It is based on the notion that only about three percent of any population is actually innovating – as opposed to inventing, improving…or watching the clock to get home in time for The Simpsons re-runs. 

Inventors have their own societies.  Improvers – people who make the existing game work better – are well accepted.  But innovators, the three percent, are often isolated and misunderstood.  We don’t solve problems so much as we pioneer new ones.  Innovators don’t just invent new tools - we use them to change how people organize themselves, do business, and live their lives.  That might be great in the long run, but it’s usually trouble for somebody in the short run.

Management gurus might tell you that anyone can be an innovator, and we wouldn’t argue with that…but if innovating involves changing the rules of the game, then perhaps it’s a good thing that only a few souls happen to be doing it at any given time.   What makes things interesting is that they can be anywhere – from the mailroom to the lab to the boardroom – and you can never predict where the great ones will appear.

TheThreePercent is about anyone who finds themselves in the odd position of trying to change the rules.  And for the habitual innovators, the creative misfits of corporate life and research labs everywhere – you’re home now, so kick off your shoes, relax, and tell us about your day.

ThreePercenters can help each other by:

• Finding resources, capabilites and support for making ideas real;
• Helping those of us who can offer good ‘innovator’ jobs find good innovators to fill them;
• Telling our stories on this blog.

We will be interviewing notable ThreePercenters here on this blog.  Let us know if you’d like your story told by posting here or signing up for our live skype forum at:

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