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Inefficiency Principle Defined
- Innovation and efficiency are mutually opposable goals: increasing one decreases the other.
- Blindly pursuing efficiencies erodes an organization's capacity to innovate and create value.
Map Your Firm On A Spectrum
- Plot your people or departments on an innovator–optimizer spectrum and make decisions with that awareness.
- Use that awareness to accept tension rather than trying to eliminate it entirely.
Partners Who Are Both Roles
- Two partners described themselves as embodying both innovator and optimizer roles and felt trapped by that tension.
- They found the model explained persistent conflict between partners and spousal dynamics.