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SEP 8

Manny Ramirez: Baseball's Most Innovative Player

Why the Dodgers' dreadlocked bad-boy is the best thing to happen to L.A. since skateboarding and margaritas

BusinessWeek, September 8, 2008 — Manny Ramirez and his dreadlocks have a lock on L.A. Dodgers' fans' hearts and minds, and are a shoo-in for the Baseball Hall of Fame. But I'd like to nominate him for one more honor: Baseball's MIP—Most Innovative Player.

No joke. I take quite seriously the meaning of innovation in its truest form—something that fundamentally changes the way people live, work, and play. For example, adding a button to a cell phone isn't innovation. But if that button turns the cell phone into a camera and that camera changes the way people record their lives and communicate with each other, then that extra button becomes innovation.

So I'm not talking about Manny's batting average or home run tally when I say he's an innovator. It's much deeper than that.

Category: Innovation
Tags: Disruption, Fun
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