This morning I had to give a few-minute spiel to my entire company about innovation. Sigh all you want. Despite the fact that we’ve been conditioned to stop listening anytime anyone in khakis starts talking about things like this, there are people out there (and particularly people in my company) who need to hear that it’s okay to try new things. None of what I said was particularly ::cough!:: innovative or even terribly interesting. You can find a trillion other things that a trillion others have said better about innovation. But! But, all day long I’ve received (politically unnecessary) compliments…