[I retyped an IBM advertisement on the IBM Fellows. The last sentence is
Galt-esque. :-) . Ubik. ]



Dreamers, Heretics, Gadflies, Mavericks, and Geniuses.

[image: several Monarch-like butterflies]

The story goes that Henry Ford once hired an efficiency expert to
evaluate his company.
After a few weeks, the expert made his report. It was highly favorable
except for one thing.
"It's this man down the hall," said the expert. "Every time I got by
his office, he's just sitting there with his feet on his desk. He's wasting
your money."
"That man", replied Mr. Ford, "once had an idea that saved us millions
of dollars. At the time, I believe his feet were planted right were they
are now."
At IBM, we have 46 people like that, and we don't worry about where
they put their feet either. They are the IBM Fellows.
They earned the title by having ideas that made a difference. Their
job is to have more ideas like that, but under a very special condition.
It's called Freedom.
Freedom from deadlines. Freedom from committees. Freedom from the
usual limits of corporate approval.
For a term of at least 5 years, an IBM Fellow is free to pursue any
advanced project of value to IBM, even if chances for success may seem
remote.
As a result, some of the great innovations of our time have come from
IBM Fellows.
We may not always understand what they're doing, much less how they do
it. But we do know this:
The best way to inspire an IBM Fellow is to get out of the way.

IBM


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