Innovate or die

Told one of my guys that I needed him to be an innovator, then I looked it up in the thesarus, now I'm not so sure!

agitator, anarchist, antagonist, apostate, demagogue, deserter, dissenter, experientialist, experimenter, frondeur, guerrilla, heretic, iconoclast, independent, individualist, innovator, insurgent, insurrectionary, malcontent, mutineer, nihilist, nonconformist, opponent, overthrower, recreant, renegade, resistance, revolter, revolutionary, revolutionist, rioter, schismatic, secessionist, seditionist, separatist, subverter, traitor, turncoat, underground

Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.3.1) via http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/innovator