"Harrison Owen" <hho...@comcast.net> wrote: > > I am not sure that the strategy would actually work, but there are multiple > examples of what you are talking about. The most famous one (at least in the > US) is the story of Post-its at 3M. The innovation occurred in a totally > messy way (didn't follow any known procedure) and the Management of 3M did > their very best to ignore, starve, and squelch the new thing. Despite all of > that, the little Post-it triumphed (made money) -- and at that point company > policy changed. Suddenly the new innovation was trumpeted as the result of > the vibrant, forward looking, boundary breaking environment of 3M. Ha :-)
That the Post-Its story is a great one, I now hear for the the third time at least (on this list before and on the Understanding Open Space-CDs), but I never got to learn the story itself! Dear Harrison, would you please be so kind to tell it again or give a link to where I can read it - I am not American... Thank you!! Marei * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
