Sparks Flew...

Mark Hurst's Good Experience offers a crash course in innovation with a link to a great article on innnovation by David Bodanis. It's called Sparks Flew...He shares the secrets of innovation. The article's well worth the time investment to read. Here's a few I liked:

* Find an innovator with incentive

* Tell him to develop a dictatorial streak.

* But make sure he listens.

* Tell your innovator to make plenty of mistakes and make them quickly.

* [T]ell your innovator to try the reverse of what everyone else is doing....(Try doing that as a parent or a manager...)

's good stuff.