Try something new. Most organizations never try anything because they’re afraid of failure. But, failure is learning. The most innovative companies understand that innovation and failure are inseparable twins. They’re not pursuing failure, they’re pursuing learning.
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Hey @Essential Here’s How You Can Steal New Customers From Competitors
in Marketing
Last week I bought an Essential Phone, from the Essential company founded by Android creator Andy Rubin. I was interested in the phone when it was first announced because it looked really well built and had a delicious bezel-less screen.
Innovation Lesson From Firefox Quantum
in Innovation
I’ve been a loyal Firefox user since version 0.4, back when an open source browser was a novelty. Thanks for Mozilla, today there are a handful of open source browsers in the market. Since then, many things have changed; including Firefox. Yesterday, Firefox 57 or Quantum was released. In a world where incremental improvements is the norm, this is actually a big release for Mozilla.
Is A.I. The New Buzzword?
Kevin Kelly is quoted as saying that “The business plans of the next 10,000 startups are easy to forecast: take X and add AI”. Indeed, and 2017 may well be the year A.I. becomes a buzzword because just about every new product and service is pitching it as a strength and point of differentiation (more on that below).…
Resources and Scale Don’t Guarantee Innovation
in Innovation
I was recently invited to talk at INIDE University to a group of MBA students about how to manage for innovation. As I mentioned on my previous post, managing for innovation means optimizing the core while exploring the future; these students already hold management positions in their organizations so this topic is important; and new to them. …
Do We Really Want Our Virtual Assistants To Be More Human?
in Innovation, Podcast
Apple, Amazon, Google, and others are pushing us to use our voices rather than our fingers to interact with their products. But do we really want our assistants to be more human?…
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.…