A meeting I had recently with some folks at Gillette highlighted an important issue facing the would-be innovator — the “curse of knowledge.”
How Knowledge Can Hurt Innovation
A meeting I had recently with some folks at Gillette highlighted an important issue facing the would-be innovator — the “curse of knowledge.” Chip and Dan Heath described the curse of knowledge nicely in their 2007 book Made to Stick (highly recommended to all innovators). The basic problem: people who have deep knowledge about a […]
July 23, 2009
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