I think this is very good advice for two reasons.
- be someone who takes action vs someone who complains. You can’t green light a new product at your level, you can visualize your ideas and socialize them. Focus on what you can do and what you can learn from that.
- be an ideas person, plural. Don’t make this the “hill you die on”. Have lots of ideas, not one you obsess on.
I totally understand lab’s point. Having a team, and a budget, and a percentage of revenue tied to new product launches, the higher you get the more you get exposed to that, the more it influences you r thinking. I do think there needs to be rom for people to innovate. Like tab said, a small proportion of time, but perhaps something really fantastic will come from it. Perhaps nothing, but the risk is contained.