(From Harvard Business Review, by Chris Trimble)
Responding to my earlier blog, Google and the Myth of Free Time, reader Brian Merritt wrote:
How do you deal with NIH? I hate the "not invented here" types that seem to think innovation is a contest they have to win.
Brian has touched on a problem with deep roots. In all fields of endeavor, humans compete for status. It's a universal truth.
That said, each community has its own status scorecard. In Washington, it's all about how much power you have. On Wall Street, it's how much money you make. And in the innovation community, it's how close you are to the beginning of the innovation story. (How many times have you heard a brag line that sounds something like, "I was there right at the beginning!") What this means, of course, if the idea was yours, is that you are king.
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