Several years back, while talking on the phone with a friend from college, I was also going though my pile of things-to-fix-up-and-reuse. When she asked what I was doing, I told her and her reply was certain and final enough to get my full attention:
“Don’t keep broken things around you.”
She went on with what she was talking about, but her statement stuck with me.
In “The Upside-Down Approach To Innovation,” Anita Campbell asks a core question:
“What if we approached innovation from the opposite direction – by getting rid of what isn’t working before we try to come up with something that works.”
