Is innovation promoted in your company?

Ok folks...writing a serious topic on a rather light note.

Newton was sitting under a tree when an apple falling triggered a whole new set of laws of physics. What if he had to come to his lab at 9.00am and leave at 6.30pm. I wonder if he would be able to see the apple at night :)

I believe there ar 3 imp skills sets which every growing company must have.
1) People who come up with ideas, build businesses from zilch to .1. These guys cannot be contained by things like timing, rules, comparative politics within an organization. It absolutely hinders any ideation process.

2) People who can take .1 to 10. Guys who have imagination but need a framework or a skeleton. They will push businesses from mere ideas to a working machine.

3) The savvy scalers.... Guys who can take a business from 10 to 100. They will take the working machine and completely scale it to new heights .

The fact is that newtons contribution to physics, mathematics as well as optics is beyond imagination, however he did get eccentric at the end of his life...was it alchemy that he sought? which led him to do experiments on himself will never be clear. The fact is that a creative mind like his will not be bounded and will go ahead with what it wants to do not keeping in mind the requirements of day to day life.

Can we as normal people actually find out what is whose skill set (very tough if we actually start doing this) and accordingly allot them work..or are we as companies and maybe even as a society churning out clones? Are our policies, organisation structures, renumeration packages supporting this differentiation?

The fact is scalers will need discipline, but innovaters might need a completely different ambiance.

Chicken and egg - blame the person or the workplace... the fact is that both lose out on their talent potential.