Champions Quote by Alan G. Robinson

““Try this: Identify a bottom-up improvement or innovation in your organization, and interview the person who championed it. Chances are you will find a hero story of some kind. Why do we have to be heroes to implement perfectly good ideas?””

Alan G. Robinson

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