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Let’s bow our heads and take a moment to mourn the loss of all the brilliant ideas that have died at the hands of “innovation killers”—the business habits that nip great ideas in the bud. They lurk in the hallways, gather around the water cooler, and generally infect most committee meetings. What are they? Inertia, fear of risk, cynicism, and complacency.
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A handful of years ago, Richard Bliss got a call from a woman with a grievance. She had just lost her job, and she said that Bliss and his company at the time, Allegro, were the reason. The woman may have let her feelings get the better of her when she yelled, “You run a terrible organization!” But she was right about one thing—Allegro had gotten her fired.
You hear it ad nauseam—B-school professors, management experts, and recruiters singing the dewy praises of the kinder, gentler leaders. They’d like you to believe that the tougher, more assertive, mildly Machiavellian poobah is a relic of a bygone era, an anomaly in today’s politically correct, global marketplace.
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