Ideas are a dime a dozen. Ideas don’t matter, execution does. You’ve heard this before. But ideas do matter. Recognizing whether it’s a good or bad one, and making it better. Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists live here. Recently, a friend of mine who works at an accelerator confided to me that the organization has finally started thinking more deeply about the quality of the ideas that they get pitched.
Tag Archives: Innovation
Change The Way People View Failure To Unlock Their Potential
Fear of failure is one of the biggest enemies of innovation; really of any type of progress or transformation. Leaders who aspire to have an organization that can transform itself and evolve have to create an environment, a culture, where it’s safe to fail.
Studying Your Competitors is Overrated. Studying Your Customers is Underrated
I don’t know that there’s a research report that shows how rampant competition focused mindset is vs a customer focused one. But, you instinctively know this if you spend anytime in the world of business. And you’re probably more focused on studying your competitors than you are your customers.
Turn Shit Into Sugar: The People Every Leader Wants On Their Team
Who are you going to call when shit hits the fan? Most of the time it’s yourself. You run towards danger with the intent of getting things under control. But putting out fires isn’t a leaders real job, nor should he / she spend her time doing so all the time. You need people who can help and not be so reliant on you.
This is How You Destroy Creativity and Innovation in Your Organization
Want to kill creativity and innovation in your organization? Most organizations are creativity and innovation inept, and it’s mostly out of their own doing. Why and how? As organizations become successful, their approaches are reinforced and they become even more resistant to change.
This is The Easiest Way To Kill Innovation In Your Organization
Innovation is the opposite of predictable, mistakes will be made and the riskier the bet the higher the chances of failure. With the current state of the global economy driven by the War in Ukraine and climate change, the demand for innovation is as high as its ever been.
5 Mental Models That Help You Increase Your Empathy
Most of the significant problems in society involve people, so making progress on these problems requires a deep understanding of people. However, it is very easy to be wrong about other people’s motivations. Specifically, how the act and why they do so. We make assumptions based on how we see the world and so we’re often wrong.