Category Archives: entrepreneurship

The Courage to Ask

in entrepreneurship, Greatness, Innovation, Leadership

kobe bryant courage to ask

You might not know that I’m a big basketball fan. Along with the UFC, it’s the sport I follow the most, while I also practice golf using an Square Golf Launch Monitor I got online. So, every once in a while I’ll find interesting lessons that apply to my “better your best” mindset. For example, during this year’s playoffs Isaiah Thomas, point guard of the Boston Celtics, reached out to NBA legend Kobe Bryant for some help on studying film. Kobe Bryant, as we’ve seen before, was obsessive about offense and defense during his playing days and is one of the reasons why he’s an all-time great. …

3 Key Criteria of Disruptive Innovation

in entrepreneurship, Innovation, Strategy

Just a few hours before sitting down to write this post I was in a meeting were a group of people pitched themselves as disruptive, they aren’t, but people on the other end of the table soaked it all in. Why? One, the misconception and another is disruption is good PR, there isn’t a day that goes by where some new upstart describes itself or is described as disruptive.

The truth is not all innovation is disruptive. How can you tell what has the potential to be disruptive? …

Innovation is Not Necessarily Disruptive

in entrepreneurship, Innovation, Leadership, Strategy

So, last week’s post Innovation is the opposite of what we’re pretending the word means hit a nerve; as it should. Some people quickly commented that disruptive and radical innovation is rare and that 99% of established organizations really pursue incremental innovation:

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How To Shape An Innovative Mindset

in Creativity, entrepreneurship, Greatness, Innovation, Leadership

hungry minds

What do innovators do that imitators don’t? Innovators are alike in many ways, they ask more questions, observe deeper, cultivate a diverse network and experiment more.

Simply put: innovators are Hungry Minds; they have insatiable curiosity and a bias for action. .  …