How far outside the box do you encourage your people to go? Who defines “off-the-wall” within your company? Do you seriously cultivate a culture that fosters innovation?

Do you believe that cats can paint? Elephants? Maggots (scroll to the bottom)?

Think how many billions of dollars resulted from these edible mistakes.

Surprises are often more welcome in academia.

But accidents happen and you need a culture that’s open and prepared to recognize and exploit something totally new.

How open are you—really?

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