Wow! I just finished reading Becky's suggested article (Champions of Innovation) and I am excited about many of the themes and examples of innovation for another reason. I'm always excited to learn how businesses create a culture of innovation and creativity. To hear a corporation like Mattel authorizing a cadre of employees to spend 12 straight weeks away from the "phyiscal" office to investigate and create a new idea for the company is a creative employee's DREAM but in reality how can an understaffed workforce offer a similiar but modified opportunity to spur creativity. How does a manager/administration or more importantly does an individual find that well-spring of creativity to be productive in a stressful situation? Is stress and conflict the platform by which creativity springs forth? And if that is the case, how often do we give into the stress to produce something extraordinary? Don't we tend to be fearful and question ourselves when a unconventional thought is released. In fact, how many of us can relate to the situation that appears in this sample scenairo.