rosabeth moss kanter

Rosabeth Moss Kanter is a professor at Harvard Business School and the author of Confidence and SuperCorp. Connect with her on Facebook or at Twitter.com/RosabethKanter.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

innovation who else is doing it

executives who tell me that they want more innovation sometimes ask, as their first question, "Who else is doing it?" Or they say, "We want more innovation; we just don't want to be the first." 

With a small-wins strategy of rapid tests and trial-and-error improvisation, the big mistakes are generally not errors of commission — that is, big losses from taking action; they are errors of omission — the failure to do anything.

People already in the organization are often the most under-utilized asset...Just be open to ideas from unusual sources and try more things. 

 

thanks to @joe_bower for leading me to rosabeth's writing

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