Adam Singer has a great post on why organizations will need to unlearn their approach to failure. Here's a quote that strikes at the essence of the idea:   "Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If it’s original, you’ll have to ram it down their throats.” -Howard Aiken, creator of the IBM/Harvard Mark 1 [...]

Janet Rae-Dupree had an insightful article entitled "Teamwork, the True Mother of Invention" in yesterday's New York Times. At one point she writes: “Innovation today isn’t a sudden break with the past, a brilliant insight that one lone outsider pushes through to save the company,” he says. “Just the opposite: innovation today is a continuous [...]