Everyone knows that productivity can be boosted through innovation: new processes, new technology, new solutions. But when we talk about innovation, we usually think of some radically new idea or the K F area. Little is said about micro-innovations, but they always make things a little better in everyday life. For example, from now on, let's not do it this way, but that way. Let's make one of these two Excel. We don't collect this data any more, because it's redundant or it can be obtained from somewhere else. And these are really small things, but added together they can increase productivity, if not radically, then significantly. Yet so many managers struggle with the fact that they are not happening. Why? Because people are afraid of change? Are they not creative enough? Are they lazy? My experience is that they are neither. There is a very different reason behind the lack of micro-innovation.