① Don't communicate your company's strategic intent to the employees even if you have it.

Strategic Direction

Strategic Alignment

② Nurture the "I know it all" attitude among all managers

Know Your Inner Enemies

③ Establish a "30-minute rule": for the first 30 minutes after an idea is expressed only negative comments can be made.

The Lingo of Employers and Employees

④ Don't establish cross-functional innovation teams

Empower Cross-functional Teams

⑤ Prevent cross-pollination of ideas and discussion of outside-the-box proposals between departments

How To Prevent Commercialization of University Technology

⑩ Don't create a corporate innovation system that makes commercialization of new ideas much easier.

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