Creative Corporate Culture Reality

"Most companies do a magnificent job of smothering the creative spark. Over the past five years we have probed the innovation strategies of 25 organizations in multiple industries and countries. Our findings are simple and somewhat disturbing, given the acknowledged necessity for innovation: Companies usually develop leaders who replicate rather than innovate. Thus rising stars realize that to be promoted, they need to mirror incumbent leaders." From: Finding and Grooming Breakthrough Innovators. Jeffrey Cohn, Jon Katzenbach, Gus Vlak, Harvard Business Review, Dec 2008