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president of Rite-Solutions, and Jim Lavoie,
CEO of the company, created this
system as a reaction to problems they’d
experienced elsewhere. “In my old company,”
Lavoie told Berns, “if you had a
great idea, we would tell you, ‘OK,
we’ll make an appointment for you to
address the murder board’ ”—a group
of people charged with vetting new
ideas. Marino described what happened
next:
Some technical guy comes in with a
good idea. Of course questions are
asked of that person that they don’t
know. Like, “How big’s the market?
What’s your marketing approach?
What’s your business plan for this?
What’s the product going to cost?”
It’s embarrassing. Most people can’t
answer those kinds of questions. The
people who made it through these
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