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How to Champion an Idea: Learning from the Post-It Note

Bnet celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Post-It Note and extracted tips from its invention.

Thursday, May 6, 2010

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Margaret Heffman remembered how the Post-It Note was invented, and how it went from an idea deemed without potential to a massive commercial hit. A pillar of this was Geoff Nicholson and his stubbornness in believing in the project’s potential while his bosses did not.

She concludes: “The story is justly famous because it defines an experience many of us have had: seeing something that our bosses simply can’t appreciate. So what can we learn from Nicholson’s frustrations?”

1. Don’t just argue.
2. Your own department is a great laboratory
3. Pilots do work
4. Don’t give up!

Source: BNet

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