Elephant in the room and Innovation!
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Argues that innovation is for everyone and identifies the real barrier as the fear of failure, offering four concrete rules: reframe failure as information, cultivate a growth mindset in leaders, reduce risk with small kaizen experiments and technical guardrails like unit tests and pipelines as code, and close knowledge gaps via regular learning sessions. Describes running internal learning/sharing events that helped shift a company onto cloud over two years and reports a quick audience poll favoring exposure to failure.
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