Sometimes it takes a flash of brilliance or perhaps madness, but thank goodness for that!After watching a bouncing bomb documentary last night, it makes you wonder what would have happened if Barnes Wallis hadn't challenged popular belief, that the Ruhr Dam was indeed inpenetrable. He didn't so much think 'outside the box' but applied different thinking to the problem.
So often in business however, we find ourselves doing the same things yet expecting a different outcome to present itself.
Honda presented this theory as 'The Power of Dreams' while Saatchi's used to say 'nothing is impossible' and Jean Marie-Dru spoke about disruption theories.
Perhaps we all need a little more faith in trying things that we are not familiar with, and just see where they take us.
'Do what you've always done, get what you've always got' very true. And whilst on the subject of WW2 heroes, what about Douglas Bader - climbing back into his plane with his two tin legs and carrying on the fight. Quite amazing but also quite a bloody minded guy by all accounts too.
ReplyDeleteHe invented the swing wing mechanism on aircraft as well. Brilliant brain.
ReplyDeleteWho did - Douglas Bader or Barnes Wallis? My mum saw Douglas Bader playing tennis after he lost his legs and by all accounts he was fearsome opposition even with his tin legs!
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