Posts Tagged ‘Innovation’
How to Win as an Underdog and Maintain Your Scrappiness as You Grow
Let’s say you’re fresh out of college, and you have two job offers: one with a global megacorporation and the other with a startup out of a San Jose garage. If stability and security were your goals, which would you choose?
Read More 4 Ways to Design Your Company for Maximum Creativity
Some companies just seem to have a magical ability to innovate. Over the past 25 years, Pixar Animation Studios has turned out hit after hit, with almost no duds (Cars 2 being the possible exception).
Read More First See It the Way It Is. Only Then…
There are certain natural laws of life. They are not necessarily good or bad. They just are. They are immutable; unchangeable.
Read More The Secret Weapon of the Most Inventive Minds
I’ve noticed something about the most successful and innovative entrepreneurs and business people; they see frustration as opportunity—a chance to do something better, cheaper or faster.
Read More Do You Really Want to be the First to Market?
If you are going to be first in a market, plan on a very long time from introduction to acceptance. Triple the time you estimate for the effort, and add four times the cost you estimated for marketing.
Read More Smart Entrepreneurs Don’t Need Disruptive Technology
It may not be as sexy, but starting a new business that builds on an existing technology or business model is usually less risky than introducing that ultimate new disruptive technology. There are many levels of innovation that go beyond copying someone else’s idea, but stop short of pushing the bleeding edge.
Read More Innovation Nation?
Is government good or bad for innovation? If you ask whether government is good or bad for innovation, it isn’t very difficult to argue either point.
Read More As the Cupcake Crumbles: What Small Businesses Can Learn
You don’t want to be a one trick pony because eventually customers will tire of the same old, same old and move on. You may hang on for a while, but most likely if you don’t diversify your offering and keep up with market trends, your business will fail.
Read More The Only Way Great Change Happens
Here are some symptoms that show you need to change what you are doing. Each of these foreshadowed a major shift in our business direction, strategy and outcomes.
Read More Why Some Innovative Leaders Get Exceptional Results
How is it that only a few business leaders and entrepreneurs seem to drive exceptional results and disruptive innovation in this rapidly changing market economy (marketquake)?
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