The Best Ideas Are the Ones That Make the Least SenseThink business is all about rational thought and logic? Think again -- and to find the biggest, best ideas, start thinking way outside the box.

Imagine that you are sitting in the boardroom of a majorglobaldrinks company, charged with producing a new product that will竞争对手the position ofCoca-Cola随着世界的s second-most-popular cold nonalcoholic drink.

How would you respond? The first thingIwould say, unless I were in a particularly mischievous mood, is something like this: "We need to produce a drink that tastes nicer than Coke, that costs less than Coke, and comes in a really big bottle so people get great value for money." What I'm fairly sure nobody would say is this: "Hey, let's try marketing a really expensive drink that comes in a tiny can…and tastes kind of disgusting." Yet that is exactly what one company did. And by doing so, they launched a soft-drink brand that would indeed go on to be a worthy rival to Coca-Cola. That drink was Red Bull.