Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. Innovation most often happens in a "eureka" moment of epiphany.
2. Having employees that experiment may limit an organization's ability to learn from failure.
3. The self-serving bias can lessen an employee's ability to learn from failure.
4. According to Scott Berkun, the search for wealth is one of six seeds of innovation.
1. FALSE
Many people think that innovation often happens in a bolt-from-the-blue moment of discovery. Most of the time, however, innovation is the product of hard work and dedication, "forged by a mixed bag of coworkers from up, down, and across an organization, sitting and wrangling it out in the trenches," in the words of Jack and Suzy Welch.
2. FALSE
Employees that are reluctant to experiment is one of the factors that can detract from an organization's ability to learn from its mistakes.
3. TRUE
Employees sometimes suffer from a "self-serving bias" in which they blame failures on others or on external events, when the fault may well lie with themselves. Factors like this can detract from an organization's ability to learn from its mistakes.
4. TRUE
Former Microsoft employee Scott Berkun, author of The Myths of Innovation, has identified six seeds of innovation, the starting point for organizational innovation. They include wealth and money. Innovations frequently occur because an organization or an individual simply wants to make money.
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