Innovation requires both rigidity and freedom. Innovators need to be held accountable for their ideas, but they also need space to try new things. Breakthroughs cannot happen without rapid testing and experimentation, and they certainly cannot happen without failure.
Innovation requires both rigidity and freedom. Innovators need to be held accountable for their ideas, but they also need space to try new things. Breakthroughs cannot happen without rapid testing and experimentation, and they certainly cannot happen without failure.
Explorative accountability is, of course, a drastically different management style than the micromanagement that's so common at companies today. It's plainly not easy to do, but innovators must be managed in a way that empowers, focuses, and challenges them.
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