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Where to place the Fulcrum of Innovation ?

If you are leading a growth through innovation effort inside a large organization, from where should you operate - inside or outside the present Business ? Archimedes said, " Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world" - there is no doubt that he can move the World but do we know where to place the Fulcrum ? “ The search for innovation needs to be organized separately and outside of the ongoing managerial business ,” Drucker explained in his 1973 book  Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices . “Innovative organizations realize that one cannot simultaneously create the new and take care of what one already has.”  In his 1985 book  Innovation and Entrepreneurship , Drucker underscored the point: “The entrepreneurial, the new, has to be organized separately from the old and existing,” he asserted. “No matter what has been tried—and we have now been trying every conceivable mechanism for 30 or 40 years— existing uni...