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You can’t keep having success if you don’t risk success. Being conservative has no place in successful organizations.

Avoiding risk is the quickest way to end up failing. Getting comfortable to risk success is a key first step to innovation success.

Phil McKinney
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Avoiding risk is the quickest way to end up failing. Getting comfortable to risk success is a key first step to innovation success.

You can't keep having success if you don't risk success. Being conservative has no place in successful organizations.

Phil McKinney
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Phil McKinney is an innovator, podcaster, author, and speaker. He is the retired CTO of HP. Phil's book, Beyond The Obvious, shares his expertise and lessons learned on innovation and creativity.

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