Ask yourself this question: “Is innovation caused, or is it serendipitous?” The answer is almost certainly “yes.”
Spend a little time with any strong innovation leader and you will find someone who is very comfortable living with this seemingly contradictory notion. On the surface, innovation often appears random — something that just seems to happen when creative people do creative stuff in creative ways. But what effective leaders of innovative ecosystems know and practice is that there are always limiting factors present in any organization, and the real trick is not in removing limits, but in choosing them.
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