Innovative leaders who wish to detect larger fields of opportunities should pursue the innovation strategy used by Edison.

Edison kept investigating and studied why things worked the way they did just to explore new ideas, reveals Dr. Paul Israel of Rutgers’ University, in New Jersey.

Dr. Israel, who serves as director and editor of the Thomas A. Edison Papers Project, explains how, “Some of Edison’s discoveries came from experiments that were meant simply to increase his knowledge.” [learn more by visiting the Edison Project website -