Whether an idea will work and how easy it will be to identify who should get credit are orthogonal.

  • Whether an idea will work and how easy it will be to identify who should get credit are orthogonal.
    • In practice, organizations tend to prefer ideas that have a clear person to give credit to (or blame if it doesn't work).
    • Organizations would rather execute an idea that definitely won't work but who they can then definitely blame on a particular person, versus a thing that definitely works but you won't be able to say who to reward if it does.