Being the first to come up with a good idea does not always make the path to success easy. In fact, often, it's quite the opposite.
For example, the idea of micro-learning may be all the rage these days, but it wasn't always that way. In fact, the company that created the first micro learning programs, AthenaOnline, was kicked out of quite a few offices for even proposing the idea.
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