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Haddington Dynamics Founder Kent Gilson  mentioned Richard Feynman's talk  There's Plenty of room at the bottom  as his inspiration for the robots creating itself 1000 times smaller. Looking at the concept of weight, I went in the other direction of scale of somehting 1000 times bigger. And then I understood, its not easy making big things. For example, it took good part of a year and many tries to make this  worlds biggest cookie .

Image Courtesy: Amazon.com Most management is about change management. How do you cause a change and sustain it? Olivia Hooker  was one of the many who campaigned for women in military. When no one was joining military even after the women were allowed, she joined the military herself to know why others were not. This is taking the customer journey, to understand the business and its service from their point of view or the times when the king went incognito to find out how the kingdom was faring. Boot Camp from boot training.

Driving Innovation from Within: A Guide for Internal Entrepreneurs (Columbia Business School Publishing) Setting the Debate Who are the real innovators? Analysing a Wharton survery/study of  The top 30 innovations of the last 30 years , author  Kaihan Krippendorff found that 70% of the chosen innovations were led by employees. Loneman? Other books have debunked the myth of innovator as a loneman. Employees? Berman working on his solar product Chief Reinvention Officer  says that employees hate  Innovation . She calls for reinvention or repurposing the best parts. Taking lean a bit forward of instead of just removing the unwanted parts.