Innovation & Reality
As if the IBM “Stop Talking, Start Doing” weren’t enough here’s a post in what is already starting to be backlash to all the innovation talk over the past few years. Just in time for the recession. Anyways, Scott is a new blogger at Havard Business Review and I think the excerpt below sums up what has been flawed in all innovation-craze over the years.
The truth is making really good things is difficult — it requires a commitment to craft, an attention to detail, and a love for work that has always been rare. And while we’d never call these three attributes innovations, it’s the success of creating an organization that rewards these things that leads to the products we often herald, after they’re done, as innovations.
