How to Promote and Protect the Iconoclasts

You should promote and protect the iconoclasts. These are individuals whose views are a bit out of the standard. I also did believe that if your ideas are actually not quite persuasive, then perhaps you should re examine your great ideas. You have to do it in a measured and considerate way. Once or twice i had somebody gently tell me, again, with great respect, sir, perhaps you should go sit under a tree until that thought passes. If you're someone who says, yes, sir before the your senior officer has even completed the thought, ah, i think you're probably not going to be as useful as you otherwise might be.