There’s an old saying that goes: It is easy to change things. It is hard to change people. Resistance to change is perhaps the biggest threat to progress a business can face. Case in point: In 1972, a young engineer at Texas Instruments named Gary Boone came up with the idea for a full computer on a chip, which we now know as the microprocessor. He got a patent even though he had trouble getting his colleagues interested in his work.

Eventually, Boone made enough noise to get a meeting with TI’s top computer jockey. Boone explained his idea for a computer on a chip to his superior.