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Most companies are optimizing for approval, not impact

  • Writer: Laurence Paquette
    Laurence Paquette
  • Apr 14
  • 1 min read

The ideas that would have actually worked never made it through.


Not because they weren’t good enough.

Because they wouldn’t get approved.


That’s not a creativity problem. It’s a system problem.


New newsletter on why bold work stalls and safe work gets approved.


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