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3M built one of the most innovative companies in history from the most unglamorous starting point imaginable: a failed mine. The lesson is about culture, not technology.

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1902Two Harbors, MinnesotaManufacturing

How 3M built a culture where failure is the product

Post-it Notes were an accident. So was Scotch Tape. 3M built a company that treats accidental discovery as a management system.

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