Most Organizations manage pretty well the latter but have hard time to cope with the first. Breakthrough invention collapses paradigm, and challenges established wisdom that made the Entity successful. We cannot return in the past and fix what lead to the present culture. We can wait for the slow but more and more brutal death by obsolescence or irrelevancy. We can set up skunk works so should the path to be scouted leads to a dead end it doesn't compromise the entire Organization and portfolio management mitigates the risk. We can embrace the world and pray charismatic decision makers don't let their hubris doom all of us. But in fine, better lucky than smart. Open minded expertise, hard work and courageous decision making process help and make our chances.
I don't believe in praying; while open minded expertise, hard work and courageous decision making process help and make our chances, high-moral trusting transformational leadership is essential, is not depend on chance but is key to success of both breakthrough and continuous improving innovations. Trusting such leaders are courageous as they count on followers' trust of them ensuring the commitment required for faithfully implement the unconventional creative innovation; without such commitment innovations fail since to fail them one disgruntled employee is often enough. I have submitted yesterday an article on the subject, while fuller information can be found in my book 'Mismanagement, "Jumpers," and Morality (Routledge, 2017) which recently appeared in a paperback edition.
Reuven: Belief is a leap of faith. Another way to express the usefulness of prayer is we do all what we know how to do as well as we can, and then remains that océan of unrealized uncertainty, Shroedinger cat mix blue of opportunity and red of blood.
Don't call it prayer. Let's redefine it: Self examination serenity helps remaining alert ready to sort out new information and act away from despair and away from misleading hubris .
Morality you evoq as essential seems to relate to some higher order. May be we are not too far in our opinions.
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