Forbes just announced their "The World's Most Innovative Companies" list. Apple Inc. has fallen off the top of the innovation list and now sits at 79.
Why? The key point for us is that arrogance of being the leader that has all the ideas doesn't build a sustainable innovative company. To quote the Forbes article, "The more enlightened leaders know the importance of building creative capabilities in others. As SalesForce founder Marc Benioff emphatically put it during a recent conversation with us, "I can't do it all. I don't have all the ideas. That isn't my job. My job is to build a culture of innovation. That's something we try to enforce. We encourage it. We value it. We notice it. We compensate for it. We require it."
SalesForce, by the way, has been No. 1 on the "Innovative Companies" list for the last three years running.
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