The disposition that generates breakthroughs is real, temperamental, and genuinely valuable. It also has a cost — to the person and the people around them. The answer isn't to fix it or worship it. It's to hold it well.

There's a particular kind of person most organizations have a complicated rel...

Groupthink doesn't come from a shortage of bold personalities. It comes from a process that rewards agreement. 

The popular story about innovation goes like this: organizations get stale, consensus calcifies, and what saves them is the maverick — the bold non-conformist who challenges the status qu...