Leaders get the innovation they deserve
Innovation tends to happen beyond the unacceptable gap between reality and expectation. If you can divert energy from failing with old ideas to succeeding with new ideas, you can perpetually surf waves of creativity. As an innovator, you can nurture experimentation and provoke imagination.
âI need 5,000 volunteers,â declared Gerstner, new CEO of IBM. He inherited a multi-billion dollar loss and wrote to employees asking for the âguts to go above, below, around or through internal hurdlesâ. He wanted innovators âwilling to take risks in the face of conventional wisdomâ.
He saw, as an ex-customer and outsider, that new attitudes and new expectations ...
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