Bending and breaking the rules: The Case for Corporate Disobedience
The Case for Corporate Disobedience
Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg, in Harvard Business Review (June 2014): you can't really innovate without bending the rules. Companies gain from leaving room for employees who question norms and work around rules, as startups do, to understand customers and react faster.
Franck Debane helps large companies build new ventures with Forward Partners: about a hundred programmes in more than 50 companies since 2012. He wrote Passez en mode startup (Eyrolles, 2021) and organises the Lead Innovation Day.
Short essays by email for people who launch new ventures inside large companies: testing ideas with customers, winning over leadership, using AI without the hype. Plus first invitations to Lead Innovation Day.