The most impactful thing that you can do is form really hard constraints.
Constraints drive innovation better than freedom
Leadership → Culture
If you try to structure innovation, you're losing that organic spark that is humanity. Imagine that someone say you have 15 minutes a day to be creative. I don't think it's the pull. So it's encouraging that thinking more than structured.
Amazing ideas come from anywhere. The thing about running a research lab is you really don't tell people what to research. That's not what you do.
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