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Thanks for this! Lots of wisdom here. This one particularly rings very true: "Only way to get a product visionary as the CEO of a company is to start it and no

Thanks for this! Lots of wisdom here. This one particularly rings very true: "Only way to get a product visionary as the CEO of a company is to start it and not get fired." From the same part in the article, "None of the existing players will – not run by product visionaries." Later elaborated on as: "just have to be better than samsung, hp, motorola – not so hard" Doesn't this in itself bring an interesting question? Why is that those companies cannot innovate or have visionaries? Surely, they must. Maybe that's another opportunity though. How to find the visionaries in your company and reward them for doing so?

a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
Size makes it impossible. If you've ever worked at a sizable company then you understand this, if not explicitly. The work of an employee becomes more and more to integrate with the machine, and less and less to think independently and innovatively. Follow the procedures. Know what forms are needed. Know who's buyoff is needed for what. Go to the break room when there's donuts celebrating the release of R145.8. The best a large company can hope for is a skunkworks.