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# Where corporate innovation dies
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2014/01/where_corporate_innovation_dies/
- Published: 2014-01-09T11:49:10.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T16:09:44.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: corporate life, innovation

Why [big companies can’t innovate](http://recode.net/2014/01/01/can-do-vs-cant-do-culture/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com):

> Big companies have plenty of great ideas, but they do not innovate because they need a whole hierarchy of people to agree that a new idea is good in order to pursue it. If one smart person figures out something wrong with an idea — often to show off or to consolidate power — that’s usually enough to kill it.

Corporate committees are where company-saving ideas go to die.