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If employees have to fear that every keystroke is being monitored - that every stray web surfing will be examined - that preliminary concepts or outlines or brainstorms willbe scrutinized even if they are just to intended to stir the crreative process - then organizations only have themselves to blame when new product design is bland, when originality is in decline, when innovation has to be purchased because those who break through the silos and vault over the moats of traditional thinking leave the "Big Brother" corporations.

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