Inspiring Innovation. You can't turn ideas into profits until you've got ideas. So how do you help all the talented people on your team come up with them? We asked 16 innovation experts from CEOs to entrepreneurs to inventors-what they do to inspire creativity within their organizations.

Stumbling into Brilliance. Many of the greatest discoveries happen by accident, not design.

The Failure-Tolerant Leader. Companies are beginning to accept the value of failure at the level of corporate policies, processes, and practices. But it's an entirely different matter at the personal level. That's where failure-tolerant leaders can help employees overcome their fear of making mistakes, creating a culture of intelligent risk-taking that makes innovation routine.