Mario Morino is co-founder and chairman of Venture Philanthropy Partners, a philanthropic investment organization committed to children of low-income families in the Washington, DC region. He is also the chairman of the Morino Institute, a non-profit organization that explores opportunities to leverage technology to advance social change.
In the early 1990s, a seasoned executive shared a metaphor that has stayed with me ever since: he said that innovation is like a coral reef. Marine biologists don’t fully understand what causes reefs to form, he said, but we do know that human actions can nurture or harm the process. The same is true for innovation—a natural, chaotic, unpredictable process that is hard, perhaps even impossible, for well-meaning outsiders to foster.
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