John Scherer - Innovation Models -
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Published on: 6/29/2000
Last Visited: 5/12/2002
My late futurist friend and colleague, Ed Lindaman, was Planning Director for NASA's Apollo Program.He found a way to get each worker seeing their responsibility and their contribution to the mission in unique ways.Even the maintenance workers, for instance, were not "doing maintenance"; they were "putting a man on the moon by 1970."
5) Commitment: Seeing to it, No Matter What.Finally, breakthroughs are actually produced by at least one person taking it on as a commitment, and declaring that what needs to happen will happen, no matter what comes up.There are always good reasons why the breakthrough hasn't happened naturally.If it were going to be easy, it would have already taken place.