The secret sauce of innovation (The Greentree Gazette)

"Eureka!” exclaimed an exuberant (and naked) Archimedes in the streets of Sicily after he figured out how to measure volume while stepping into a bath. And so the myth was born that innovation develops from a single flash of brilliance. It continues to be perpetuated today. But as experts will attest, innovation doesn’t materialize from nothingness. “Thorough study” and “systematic solutions” may be less glamorous than the Archimedes story, but they are more accurate. Campus leaders will have a better chance of helping their staff reach that “eureka” moment by understanding the conditions that foster innovation or enable it to occur.

The full article was published in the May issue of The Greentree Gazette.