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The simple reason for Corporate America's lack of imagination is found in the incentives of our executive suites.

Stock-based compensation has exploded in the past 40 years, as part of a push to "align" inside management and outside shareholders. In 1970, CEO compensation was $850,000 on average; less than 1% of that came in the form of stock-based incentives. In 2000, those figures were $14 million and 50%, according to Roger Martin's Fixing the Game .

Aside from exploding CEO pay in general, the "alignment" has had questionable effects.

My company is a US based manufacturing operation, which ships directly from the our U.S. factory throughout the world. We manufacture scientific instrumentation which is in fairly high demand - it's a niche market, and our main competition is based in the U.S., EU, and to a small extent China.