In modern corporations mostly due to the DotCom era, when corporations were seeing investors move to faster moving companies; we saw a paradigm shift in Corporate Management. Tom Peters and others saw this and started writing about it. These corporate management gurus were trying to tell us all along what Deming and others had noticed. It seems like America goes thru cycles of losing sight of the ball. But once again we see the return of the suggestion box, although with the flow of thought set up correctly they would never be needed, because innovation would be constant and a moving target.

Today’s corporations have to be innovative simply to attempt to comply with the rising tide of over regulations, if they don’t they will drown. Yet they are so busy in the boardrooms discussing transparency with lawyers and accountants they have little time to listen or to brainstorm. The former head of HP made that statement this year at the Davos Convention 2005. With these restrictions it means less innovation can take place and even a great idea is will not work because it has to fit into a perfect box that a regulator has predetermined.

Thus the problem that hurts the most and denies us our future; it hurts the employees, managers, customers, consumer and tax base. No one wins and it adds to the harsh barriers and unspoken restriction of “Not Invented Here” to the flow of thought. Man is generally a copier, with very few in the populations capable of free flowing original thoughts. We need to slow the bureaucracy and over regulations and allow for those who know what is going on to guide us and lead us forward, not the government regulators who have never had to make a pay check and always have a hot cup of coffee and plenty of time to stand their and drink it as it cools to an acceptable level. Think about it; we are.

"Lance Winslow" - If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; www.WorldThinkTank.net/wttbbs