Companies get killed because they grow complacent and get disrupted by a different and better offering. Clear signals that a business is dying is when they don’t give a damn about their users.
Case in point: delicious.…
Archive for: April, 2016
Jeff Bezos on Culture: Failure and Invention are Inseparable Twins
Failure can’t be separated from invention, it’s not optional. It’s also why you can’t mandate innovation, only inspire it. You can create the conditions necessary for it to happen, but it’s not a set-it and forget it deal.
It’s something that Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos, understands well and repeated this message once more in the latest letter to shareholders:…
Leadership Mobilizes and Energizes A Company Culture with Shawn Parr
Mobilizing and energizing a culture is predicated on the organization clearly understanding the vision, mission, values, and goals. It’s leadership’s responsibility to involve the entire organization, informing and inspiring them to live out the purpose the organization in the construct of the values.
On this episode of the Big Bang podcast I chat with Shawn Parr, CEO of Bulldog Drummond, on how to mobilize company culture.…
Maintainers, not innovators, make the world turn?
Maintainers, not innovators, make the world turn. Overvaluing innovation hurts society…
That is the main idea behind an on Aeon Magazine which argues that we focus too much on innovation and not so much on what really keeps the wheels turning: maintainers.…
The Dangers Of Creating The Future
What if you had a camera in your eye that recorded everything? You could then go back and watch it over and over again. Wouldn’t it be amazing?
That future isn’t far away as Samsung has been granted a patent in South Korea for smart contact lenses intended for augmented reality content; it has a built-in camera.
This is just the beginning, as the next step could be a scenario where that camera records what we see. And then what?…
If You Don’t Value Brilliance, You Don’t Value Innovation
in Innovation, Leadership
Talent hits a target no one else can hit, genius hits a target no one else can see. In a perfect situation, you have both on your side. On most situation, you have neither.
No traditionally managed corporation would ever hire a Steve Jobs, Elon Musk or Larry Page type of person. Why? Because genius needs to be left alone, to be unleashed, to operate in chaos. And corporations want to put a leash on anything that challenges the status quo; they are afraid of genius because they can’t predict and control it.
But, black sheep are precisely the type of people you need if you truly want to innovate. It’s the truth.…
What technology should be un-invented?
in Creativity, Innovation, Podcast
Not all innovation is great, there are pros and cons to everything. The world is full of products no one really needs, and there other products that have unintended consequences. What are those things that are ubiquitous that we don’t need?…