The Blues-Print For Innovation

“Hey Bob – have you looked at these $10 bills?  I think they’re counterfeit.” At the time, my day job was teaching school in the projects in West Philadelphia. I usually stayed late one afternoon each week to teach guitar lessons to any of the kids who were interested. I was teaching them to play […]

Most well-run corporations are a lot like successful symphony orchestras: they have whole sections of people who are highly  skilled at playing their instrument (think: marketing, manufacturing, finance, etc.) and at interpreting a score (think: corporate culture) that’s open to interpretation but is nevertheless formalized. Those ensembles, however, are not designed for improvisation.  (Think: innovation.)