[DayDollar]

Managers simply retrieve there value and validation from past accomplishments. Its very human to interpolate from the past to the future. Its very dangerous to stick your neck out and make wild guess. Also demand for changes are usually absolute- as in - we should give up our current field, and go all in, noir, 42 - so to speak. Lots of times, recommendations ala- we should invest 2 weeks to build a prototype to explore the field, and be ready to expand upon, should this explode, would be a lot wiser. This is not black and white. This is a grey area gradient.

Mix in the usual human bias ("We got to have 1 Leader, with 1 plan, else we have civil war and unrest") and you get viewed as a failure as manager- even though you prepared the underlyig plattform technology for future successes, because one product didnt take off.

I was really spitfull on management for this. but they are limited in quite a lot of ways.

What helps is creating the ilusion that others already have done a innovation..