Put Your Best People on Innovation

Many businesses make the mistake of giving innovation projects to junior executives.  It seems natural to hand innovation opportunities to enthusiastic and promising upstarts.  But generally it is the experienced heavyweights who can overcome all the process and political obstacles that will occur. 

In September 1999 Lou Gerstner, CEO of IBM, read a line buried [...]

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11 of the Dumbest Business Decisions Ever

We know that innovation involves taking risks.  Yet it often seems that the safe option is to turn down the risk.  However, turning down a risk is also a risk – the risk of losing an opportunity.  Just to remind us of how big that risk is we have here a list of some of [...]

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