Galileo knew something about culture and MAP, actually he knew quite a lot. I was reminded of that when a Galileo quote was used in the Agnes comic strip.

Several hundred years ago he said,

“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.” (Agnes says this to her teacher.) He also said,

“I never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.”

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”

When building a culture, or refining your MAP, it’s great to find bedrock truths to base them on—ideas from impeccable sources and requiring no interpretation, because they are so simple that anyone can understand them.

If you manage based on the first two, you’ll be respected by your people and rewarded by your bosses.

Add the third, and you’ll jumpstart innovation by remembering that all ideas are worth at least one real look—no matter the source.

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