If These Cubicles Could Talk

摘要

Another day, another urgent deadline. In a white stucco office park with perfunctory geometric green trim, the 26-year-old division president of our IT firm paused during a staff meeting. "It's okay if you make mistakes," he said. "They just have to be fast mistakes." It was the first quarter of 2000. In one sentence, he had hit on what would become the year's twin themes for our firm and, as it turned out, so many others: the relentlessness of the dock and the interdependence of innovation and failure.