Innovation Culture

Walk into most corporate innovation labs and you’ll find the same theater: whiteboards covered in Post-it notes, bean bags clustered around standing desks, and earnest people throwing around words like “disruption” and “ideation.” Walk into truly innovative departments and you might find none of that. You might just find people arguing passionately about why their

There’s a peculiar affliction that strikes the brilliant. They understand their product so deeply, have wrestled with its technical intricacies so thoroughly, that they assume everyone else must want the same journey. They don’t sell. They lecture. Watch a genius founder pitch their company and you’ll often witness something paradoxical. The smarter they are, the

We live in the age of the expert. The cardiologist who knows everything about the left ventricle but nothing about the right knee. The software engineer who can build you a recommendation algorithm but can’t explain why people actually click on things. The marketing guru who understands consumer psychology but freezes when asked about the

We’ve been sold a beautiful lie about innovation. The lie says that breakthrough ideas come from brilliant thinking, from raw cognitive horsepower, from the lone genius having their eureka moment in the bathtub. We celebrate the spark of inspiration, the flash of insight, the moment when everything suddenly clicks. But here’s what nobody tells you:

Walk into any corporate innovation lab and you’ll likely see the same thing: pristine dashboards with color-coded metrics, perfectly aligned KPIs, and charts that tell a clean story of progress. Everything is organized, trackable, and most importantly, presentable to the C-suite. It all looks very professional. It also might be completely worthless. The uncomfortable truth