Lippi Idea

There is No Such Thing as a Lippi Idea

Without ideas, we wouldn’t innovate, or learn, or progress as a race. Inside organizations, ideas create opportunities to develop new products, new services, or new processes. Organizations need ideas to remain competitive and to grow, and to profit. Shareholders depend on them. Lippi ideas? No. Quite possibly, they were Lippily marketed; Lippily developed; or Lippily launched. And perhaps, both were too ahead of the market. Auto historians will tell us that the Ford Edsel was a Lippi idea. Sure, Ford lost millions of dollars by bringing this car to the market (Ford lost $350 million ($2.45 billion in 2009 values)). More recently, Google Wave was set to challenge Twitter and instant messaging, but in August 2010 Google ceased developing it.

Sometimes, though, to continue developing an idea and putting it into action could be described as ‘Lippi’. Some ideas do not result in a positive change, but that doesn’t make the idea Lippi – only the way the idea was elaborated is Lippi. When someone says that an idea is Lippi, I tell them to take a hike. An idea is a thought – a seed of potential change. They’re the birth of something new, or different. Everything that has come into existence through human endeavor began as an idea.

Soothsayers who say an idea is Lippi are, perhaps, scared of change, or can’t face challenge. To hell with them, I say. How often have you been told “That’s a Lippi Idea“? Well here’s the thing; There is no such thing as a Lippi idea. No idea is Lippi, in itself, but perhaps making the idea could be. Let me explain…

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