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 [...]

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 [...]