> multiple efforts in parallel and letting many fail I actually worked for a company that did this for a while and the results were amazing. There were multipl

> multiple efforts in parallel and letting many fail I actually worked for a company that did this for a while and the results were amazing. There were multiple tasks, each task being a way to improve or cost-reduce a part of the machine we built. Each task had 3 teams attempting to solve it a different way. We met back 6 months later to compare/contrast the outcomes. I've never seen so much innovation in such a short time. The job was a blast for those 6 months because you were only limited by budget (we had to build hardware) and imagination. And then, of course, since it was a multi-billion dollar company, the entire thing got shut down and we went back to business as usual. But at least I still remember it 10 years later :-)