Posts Tagged ‘experimentation’

Experimentation + Risk (+ Failure) = Improved Environment for Innovation

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Thomas Alva Edison was a failure. It has been said that he “went back to the drawing board” more than 6,000 times before finding the right plant to produce a carbonized filament for his incandescent light bulb.

Six thousand times. Do you have that kind of innovative stamina?

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Experimentation + Risk (+ Failure) = Improved Environment for Innovation

Monday, October 19th, 2009

Thomas Alva Edison was a failure. It has been said that he “went back to the drawing board” more than 6,000 times before finding the right plant to produce a carbonized filament for his incandescent light bulb.

Six thousand times. Do you have that kind of innovative stamina?
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