So far so good, or "I totally agree that I totally agree" with all of you - especially to the one quoted from Kes Sampanthar
Inventor of ThinkCube
To Scott Berkun: Since I was only reading the chapter provided ("people love new ideas"), I can not discuss his whole book. But his thoughts about developing and introducing new ideas were interesting. Rather than repeating the good statements on the topic, I just want to go on with the discussion.
@Julia: If the decision-makers (maybe some kind of lobby), that have to decide wether to finance, implement or communicate the innovation, see their own power at risk (money, influence, etc.), a smart and talented innovator has no chance to get her/his idea through that wall. The audience often could be considered as open-minded, but in a selfish way.
For example the medical industry: On the one hand pharmacy companies love to talk about improving life of millions of people. Do you think they would appreciate if an open-minded innovator comes along, telling them to finance his innovation which would make dialysis unnecessary? (By the way, the medical sector pays the highest avarage salary in germany - strange feeling about that? ...maybe the financial system is not the only area that needs some creative destruction)
See you all at the webinar,
Oliver
PS: No offence to Laura, Kim and Manuel
And thanks to Roman, you saved me 1 hour of cheeze-time