"Incrementalism is innovations worst enemy."
A number of people responded to this post. One (who I can't remember)
suggested that innovation is the result of a whole lot of people making
incremental change.
And then there were a few who were quite turned off by the fact that I
quoted Tom Peters. In fact, I felt that a couple of the responses were as
close to personal attacks that I've had on the list. At the time I was
under a lot of emotional pressure so I didn't respond because I didn't
know if I was correctly interpreting the messages.
I do remember, however, that when I read them I was pretty hot under the
collar. One in particular annoyed me to the point that I slammed my desk
drawer and blurted out of few obscene explicatives which scared the people
in my office away.
Things have calmed down a bit since then, and I'd like to understand why
people felt that it was:
A) Shallow for me to quote Tom Peters
B) Why the quote I referenced isn't accurate
C) If there are indeed those who feel like my participation on this list
distracts from its usefulness and/or credibility (an implication I felt
was embedded in at least two of the replies). If so, I'd like to
understand why you may feel this way.
-- Ben Compton The Accidental Learning Group Work: (801) 222-6178 Improving Business through Science and Art bcompton@geocities.com http://www.e-ad.com/ben/BEN.HTMLearning-org -- An Internet Dialog on Learning Organizations For info: <rkarash@karash.com> -or- <http://world.std.com/~lo/>