I don’t know why, but an awful lot of people seem to be very confused about what innovation means and how it really works. Innovators are not geeks with giant-sized brains that think plaids, stripes, and polka-dots all match.
And, more often than not, they don’t have a single patent or PhD to their name.
In a recent New Yorker article and NPR interview, Malcolm Gladwell talks about what he calls the Creation Myth: that an innovator may not be the guy who comes up with the idea but the guy who turns that idea into something people can use.
To read the full, original article click on this link: Innovators Don't See Different Things - They See Things Differently | BNET
Author:Steve Tobak
