“What if there is some hidden force that is working against your best efforts? What if this force is operating inside your own company, with the full support of your executive team, your board of directors, your investors, and indeed…
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Book Report: Escape Velocity
Tagged with: asymmetry, Category Maturity Life Cycle, Clayton Christensen, complex systems, Escape Velocity, Geoffrey Moore, Google, HBR, inertia, innovation, portfolio management, provocation-based selling, roadmap, target market initiatives, technology, Technology Adoption Life Cycle, The Innovator's Dilemma, Three Horizons Model, vision, volume architecture, Why Should I Choose You?
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Management
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Management
Book Report: The Hard Thing About Hard Things
“Nobody cares. And they are right not to care. A great reason for failing won’t preserve one dollar for your investors, won’t save one employee’s job, or get you one new customer. It especially won’t make you feel one bit…
Tagged with: Andy Grove, Ben Horowitz, Business 2.0, CEOs, Good to Great, Google Glass, High Output Management, innovation, Jack Welch, lay-offs, Lessons from the Top, management debt, Marc Andreessen, Mark Organ, Michael Ovitz, Opsware, personnel management, Print the Legend, Sandvine, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, vision, Why Should I Choose You?
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Management
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Management
Book Report: The Lean Startup
“All these activities in a well-run traditional organization offer incremental benefit for incremental effort. As long as we are executing the plan well, hard work yields results. However, these tools for product improvement do not work the same way for…
Tagged with: Build-Measure-Learn, cohort analysis, continuous deployment, customer archetype, entrepreneurship, Eric Ries, HBR, innovation, kanban, leap-of-faith, metrics, minimum viable product, perseverance, pivot, split tests, Steve Blank, The Goal, The Lean Startup, tuning the engine, validated learning, Where Good Ideas Come From
Posted in Books, Everything, Management
Posted in Books, Everything, Management
Book Report: Deep Thinking
“Our attitude matters, and not because we can stop the march of technological prowess even if we wanted to, but because our perspective on disruption affects how well prepared for it we will be. There is plenty of room between…
Tagged with: AlphaGo, Amos Tversky, artificial intelligence, automation, Bill Gates, Bounce, chess, competition, Dan Ariely, Daniel Kahneman, Data and Goliath, Deep Thinking, Der Speigel, disruption, expertise, Garry Kasparov, innovation, Larry Smith, Larry Tesler, machine learning, Mikhail Botvinnik, Moravec's Paradox, performance, philosophy, pragmatism, privacy, problem solving, Success and Luck, technology, The Pentagon's Brain, Vasily Smyslov, Weapons of Math Destruction, Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Posted in Books, Everything, Math and Science
Posted in Books, Everything, Math and Science
What’s Your Problem? A talk by Larry Smith.
“If the machines are doing the routine work, then humans must do the non-routine work. To be an innovator, you need to talk about unsolved, important problems.” – University of Waterloo Professor, Larry Smith Last night I joined two former colleagues,…
Tagged with: AlphaGo, automation, Dan Deeth, Don Bowman, economics, entrepreneurship, innovation, JK Rowling, Larry Smith, machine learning, marketing automation, Moravec's Paradox, Problem Lab, problem solving, problems, Steve Jobs, Tim Ferriss, University of Waterloo, Velocity, Walt Disney
Posted in Careers, Leadership
Posted in Careers, Leadership
The Meeting for Innovation
“A real invention meeting is a collective gathering that produces ideas which none of the participants would have had individually.” – David Pearl In The Reasons Why People Meet, I introduced seven different types of meeting. In this post, we examine…
Tagged with: Charles Handy, committees, convergence, David Pearl, disruption, divergence, innovation, invention, meetings, stimulation, teams, Will There Be Donuts?
Posted in Leadership, Management
Posted in Leadership, Management
Competitive and Market Intelligence: Leadership, Strategy, and Innovation
“The military are excellent planners; the private sector are great at execution. There are strengths and limitations of both paradigms, and we can learn so much by talking to each other.” – Retired Maj. Gen. David Fraser At last night’s Communitech…
Book Report: Where Good Ideas Come From
“A series of shared properties and patterns recur again and again in unusually fertile environments. I have distilled them down into seven patterns. The more we embrace these patterns – in our private work habits and hobbies, in our office…
Tagged with: adjacent possible, Benjamin Franklin, commonplace book, Communitech, dreams, error, flow, Great Man Theory, innovation, Isaac Asimov, James Watt, Kitchener, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, NeoNurture, Sigmund Freud, Steven Johnson, Stuart Kauffman, TED, Thomas Jefferson, Waterloo, William James, William Stanley Jevons
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Management, Math and Science
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Management, Math and Science
How to define and dominate your billion dollar category
For anything truly innovative and new, the category has to start from nothing and grow into something. [Mark Organ, formerly co-founder and CEO of Eloqua and now co-founder and CEO of Influitive, recently joined us to share his ideas about…
Tagged with: category creation, demand generation, disruption, Eloqua, Influitive, innovation, Mark Organ, mission, Salesforce, Tesla, transformation, vision
Posted in Marketing
Posted in Marketing
Book Report: How We Got to Now
“This is a history worth telling, in part, because it allows us to see a world we generally take for granted with fresh eyes. Our lives are surrounded and supported by a whole class of objects that are enchanted with…
Tagged with: Ada Lovelace, adjacent possible, Charles Babbage, Clarence Birdseye, clean, cold, Elon Musk, Frederic Tudor, Galileo, glass, How We Got to Now, innovation, Leonardo Da Vinci, light, Niels Bohr, perspective, research, science, sound, Sputnik, Steven Johnson, Stuart Kauffman, technology, Thomas Edison, time
Posted in Books, Math and Science
Posted in Books, Math and Science
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