I just loved this sidebar title. . . Is it an Acorn or a Rabbit Turd??

A couple of other quotes of interest (all from the same article)
* “But by definition, innovation is wasteful in the short term: It takes a lot of acorns to grow an oak tree.”
* “You need 1000 crazy ideas to find 100 plans that are worth funding experimentally so that you can then identify 10 projects that are worth pursuing seriously in hopes of coming up with one or two strategies that have true transformative power.”

Inspired me enough to fire off an email to my boss. That goes against the grain of this article – I should supposedly just ‘do’, but I’d really like this to spin off into a new mission/task/plan for me. I’m fired up with the idea of getting to hunt out new business software/system ideas. I knew a guy who had something like that job title, but I don’t think it ever translated into anything real. I may end up just ‘doing’ anyway – feeding system synopsis to someone who then gets a sales commission if they actually sell ‘my’ vision. But it sure would be nice for that to be at least part of my job.