Only organizations and leaders who cultivate an environment where ideas can flow freely and be challenged without judgment can make it. Here's how to make sure your company encourages the right kind of conflict.

Bruce Lee, a brilliant philosopher and martial artist, warned us that untested ideas guarantee unrealized potential. He created Jeet Kune Do — not as a new style, but as a general epistemology (theory of knowledge) to be open-minded to all styles to find what works — and along the way, "absorb what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically your own." Lee's genius extends way beyond martial arts as truly strengthening an organization (and one's character, for that matter) requires ongoing ideation and adaptation.

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