The idea of getting in shape is easy: burn more calories than you consume.
Just about everyone knows this, but far fewer people can sustain the exercise and curb the food intake necessary to make it happen.

Likewise, the idea of innovation is simple, many companies can set aside a committee or a department whose job it is to come up with fresh ideas.
But how many are willing to learn new paradigms, dismantle obsolete systems, and retool enough to follow through on the findings?

If meeting goals is so hard for all of us, why do we insist on being so hard on our failures?