There's lots of grass roots innovation at the individual and small team level. The problem is that as soon as an initiative looks like it's taking on legs, a bunch of useless executives, desperate to make themselves relevant, use their political skills (the only thing they are good at) to attach themselves to the project. Before long the original innovators are sidelined, replaced with the useless executive's equally useless groupies, and the project dies soon after.
Great post, @1wbz+1bYuo9gk So true!