Muddling Through - and Post-its

[Marei Kiele]

"Harrison Owen" <hhowen at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> I am not sure that the strategy would actually work, but there are multiple
> examples of what you are talking about. The most famous one (at least in the
> US) is the story of Post-its at 3M. The innovation occurred in a totally
> messy way (didn't follow any known procedure) and the Management of 3M did
> their very best to ignore, starve, and squelch the new thing. Despite all of
> that, the little Post-it triumphed (made money) -- and at that point company
> policy changed. Suddenly the new innovation was trumpeted as the result of
> the vibrant, forward looking, boundary breaking environment of 3M. Ha :-)


That the Post-Its story is a great one, I now hear for the the third time at least (on this list before and on the Understanding Open Space-CDs), but I never got to learn the story itself! Dear Harrison, would you please be so kind to tell it again or give a link to where I can read it - I am not American...

Thank you!!

Marei

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