TELUS WORLD of SCIENCE calgary

摘要

The Fuel for Innovation-Risk Taking It's got to be one of the most common elephants in the room-for your kids at school, for you sitting in that meeting room talking about a project, for a CEO trying to balance shareholder value with innovation-what happens if this doesn't work out? What happens if l/we/you take that risk and it fails? What happens to my kid's future? My career? My reputation? Better to go with the safe idea/path/solution. Sound familiar? This is probably one of the biggest dilemmas out there-for innovation to happen, there are likely to be a whole lot of dead ends before you get there. A whole pile of failures. A big bin of oops. Thomas Edison put it very succinctly when asked why he still hadn't developed the light bulb: "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."