The idea for this post was originally going to be about business strategy.  It was going to revolve around this quote, that I found on the Contrast blog:
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
- Michael E. Porter
It’s a good quote, but there’s a better one that cuts more to the heart of [...]

I recently had an issue where I was working on how some text was displayed on a site.  Part of the text was user supplied and part of the text was not.  As an example, it would be something like this:
Book: Title
The title would be supplied by the user, but the product type would not [...]

Here are several quotes from Scott Berkun’s The Myths of Innovation:
Teams with healthy idea life cycles are easy to spot: ideas flow between people easily and in large volumes.
Teams that innovate are great places for ideas to live – like happy pets, they’re treated well, get lots of attention, and are shared among people who [...]

The dirty little secret – the fact often denied – is that unlike the mythical epiphany, real creation is sloppy.  Discovery is messy; exploration is dangerous.  No one knows what he’s going to get when he’s being creative.  Filmmakers, painters, inventors, and entrepreneurs describe their work as a search: they explore the unknown hoping to [...]

A culture of trust would be the ultimate corporate environment.  Just uttering the phrase brings to mind visions of the ideal work environment.  Fill in the blanks however you see fit, but for me it would be having a say in the projects I work on and being left to my own devices to determine [...]