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Quick: What sounds more fun? Filling in spreadsheets with data for eight hours or coming up with new and exciting ideas?

I'll go ahead and assume you went with option two. The opportunity to innovate is something most of us want more of in our daily work lives. Yet often, we feel we can't be more creative at work because of factors beyond our control. Perhaps your company is risk-averse and likes to play it safe, perhaps your targets are intimidatingly aggressive, or perhaps the sheer size of your to-do list makes adding anything new feel impossible.

While a lot of these may be true, there are also some tips and tricks almost anyone can adopt to keep your innovation muscles strong and ready to go. And like any muscle group, the more you practice it, the stronger, better, and more unstoppable it becomes. Here are 10 things you can do on the job to make it easier to be more innovative every single day.

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These are Daley's tips for creating a collaborative culture.

1. Play musical chairs. When 4moms started, marketers, engineers, supply-chain managers, and industrial designers sat in their respective departments. But soon they began to rearrange themselves into project-focused, cross-functional teams. Rather than send them all back to their offices, Daley says, the company embraced the idea, because it brought conversations about product form and appearance into the process earlier, a "big part of making a product successful. We're tripling our lab space because this is the way people like to work."

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You would think it would be clear that any business’s most valuable workers aren’t some kind of uniform game pieces, human checkers that can be swayed, swapped, motivated and moved around the board at will. But this fact of life is apparently not obvious to millions of managers at every level in organizations of all sizes. They continue to believe that, in almost everything involving people, one size or one approach fits all.

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