This, according to Paul Graham, is the single most important principle in Silicon Valley. It means that whatever metric you track, it will tend to improve.
It’s also exactly what is wrong with Silicon Valley.
I think this concept of “CINO” is already obsolete.
Better to ask what system or set of organizational principles allow each of us to innovate with a requisite degree of self-determination.
For example, the principles of self-organization as espoused in Frederic Laloux’s Reinventing Organizations…