Chapter 33. Be Ready to Say Yes
“Silicon Valley has developed a ‘genius’ business model. You find a genius. You build a business around them.” | ||
| --Gordon Bell and Heidi Mason, The Care and Feeding of “Intrapreneurs” | ||
The good manager—that’s you—tries to stay completely fresh. Not to get stuck in the same old ways of doing things. That means not having a default mechanism of “No, we don’t do it like that.” Instead replace it with “That’s an interesting idea. How do you think that would work?”
What’s more, you need to encourage people to come up with new ideas, as well as coming up with them yourself. Try ideas out. Take one new idea each week and give it a try. It might be fairly simple, “We’d like more choice of snacks in the break room, please,” ...
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