8 Steve Jobs Quotes to Fuel Your Entrepreneurial Spirit. Steve Jobs was one of the most ruthless, determined and prolific innovators of our time.
He had immense clarity about what he was setting out to achieve, and what change he wanted to make in the world, and this was the source of his inspiration. While he was a perfectionist and intimidatingly disciplined, he was also a profound creative, with many pearls of wisdom on how to (in his words) make 'a dent in the universe'. 1. "Good artists copy, great artists steal. " Entrepreneurs Say This Is the No. 1 Factor in Their Success. Elon Musk Lifted A Problem-Solving Skill From Aristotle. Batteries Published on October 12th, 2019 | by Matt Pressman October 12th, 2019 by Matt Pressman.
The Ministry of Silly Questions. This might sound very Monty Pythonesque, but have you ever considered setting up a Ministry of Silly Questions in your company and seeing what new insights you might find?
This isn't a frivolous idea. You see, we aren't silly enough. We're far too serious. We take ourselves too seriously and we're often afraid to look silly by challenging the things that everyone else seems to take for granted. Most of us were brought up to believe that if you ask a silly question, you get a silly answer. Do you want to be original? Mix in someone else’s ideas. Tom Wujec: Got a wicked problem? First, tell me how you make toast. Why Small Ideas Can Matter More Than Big Ideas. Americans are preoccupied by the size of things: big houses, big sandwiches, and big salaries.
At leadership retreats, and in the bestselling books we buy, we seek grand thoughts. The basic logic we use is the bigger the idea, the bigger the value, but often that’s not true. There’s a myth at work here: the assumption that big results only come from radical changes. There’s good evidence for a counter-argument. The problems that plague organizations, or hold them back from greatness, are often small things that happen to be consistently overlooked. The McDonalds brothers had a very simple idea. The Myth of Epiphany. One of the most provocative chapters of The Myths of Innovation (book summary) is The Myth of Epiphany.
This myth is the belief that there is something magical about how ideas come to us, and that breakthrough ideas frequently come to people as a result of a flash of insight. I’ve spent years studying the many well known stories of flashes of insight in history and found most of the them were legends or exaggerations. The Ten Myths of Innovation: the best summary. I wrote the bestselling book The Myths of Innovation to share the truths everyone should know about how big ideas really change the world.
WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM by Steven Johnson. Fundamentals of Lean UX, Agile on the Beach 2014. Alan Iny: Reigniting creativity in business. Joi Ito: Want to innovate? Become a "now-ist" The Truth About Google X: An Exclusive Look Behind The Secretive Lab's Closed Doors. Astro Teller is sharing a story about something bad.
Or maybe it's something good. At Google X, it's sometimes hard to know the difference. Teller is the scientist who directs day-to-day work at the search giant's intensely private innovation lab, which is devoted to finding unusual solutions to huge global problems. He isn't the president or chairman of X, however; his actual title, as his etched-glass business card proclaims, is Captain of Moonshots--"moonshots" being his catchall description for audacious innovations that have a slim chance of succeeding but might revolutionize the world if they do.
It is evening in Mountain View, California, dinnertime in a noisy restaurant, and Teller is recounting over the din how earlier in the day he had to give some unwelcome news to his bosses, Google cofounder Sergey Brin and CFO Patrick Pichette. Failure is not precisely the goal at Google X. X does not employ your typical Silicon Valley types. But in some ways that makes sense. The leaked New York Times innovation report is one of the key documents of this media age.
There are few things that can galvanize the news world’s attention like a change in leadership atop The New York Times.
Jill Abramson’s ouster yesterday afternoon probably reduced American newsroom productivity enough to skew this quarter’s GDP numbers. The-Full-New-York-Times-Innovation-Report.pdf. Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from. 'Good' Beats 'Innovative' Nearly Every Time. One troubling recent phenomenon is the push for everyone to be innovators.
Can-Do vs. Can’t-Do Culture. “God, body and mind, food for the soul When you feeding on hate, you empty, my n!
*$a, it shows.” — Rick Ross “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” — George Bernard Shaw Lately, it has become in vogue to write articles, comments and tweets about everything that’s wrong with young technology companies. The Difference between Strategy and Innovation. Strategy and innovation are often conflated. Recently, I even had someone say to me, “last time I checked, strategy and innovation were the same thing, is that not correct?” In a tone just like the one my 2nd grade teacher reserved for the dullards in the class.
No, it is not correct. Not even close. In fact, they are quite distinct, requiring vastly different people, skill sets and processes. Oliver Teckert's Blog - Innovation in the Game Industry. The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutra’s community. The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company. This is the second of a two part posting on innovation and how it applies to the game industry. This first post will discuss the nature of innovation. The second post focuses on innovation within the gaming industry. Innovation in the Gaming Industry When looking in at the gaming industry from the outside, game development is remarkable successful at innovating. The secret to creativity, intelligence and scientific thinking: Being able to make connections.
10.3K Flares Filament.io 10.3K Flares × When we shared this image from the @buffer Twitter account recently, it got me thinking. The Tweet resulted in over 1,000 retweets, which somehow was an indication that a lot of people seemed to agree with this statement. There’s a key difference between knowledge and experience and it’s best described like this: The original is from cartoonist Hugh MacLeod, who came up with such a brilliant way to express a concept that’s often not that easy to grasp. The image makes a clear point—that knowledge alone is not useful unless we can make connections between what we know. Lots of great writers, artists and scientists have talked about the importance of collecting ideas and bits of knowledge from the world around us, and making connections between those dots to fuel creative thinking and new ideas. How Microsoft Lost Its Mojo: Steve Ballmer and Corporate America’s Most Spectacular Decline.
To the saccharine rhythm of a Muzak clip, Steve Ballmer crouched into a tackling stance and dashed across a ballroom stage at the Venetian Las Vegas. A 20-foot wall of video screens flashed his name as the 55-year-old Microsoft chief executive bear-hugged Ryan Seacrest, the ubiquitous television and radio host, who had just introduced Ballmer’s keynote speech for the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show. More than 150,000 techies and executives were swarming the city’s hotels last January in the annual bacchanalia of cutting-edge gizmos and gadgets.
Attendees ran from one vendor to the next, snapping up fistfuls of freebies, inhaling flavored oxygen, and rubbing elbows with stars such as LL Cool J and Justin Bieber. Creativity is rejected: Teachers and bosses don’t value out-of-the-box thinking. Illustration by Rob Donnelly In the United States we are raised to appreciate the accomplishments of inventors and thinkers—creative people whose ideas have transformed our world.
We celebrate the famously imaginative, the greatest artists and innovators from Van Gogh to Steve Jobs. The Number One Key to Innovation: Scarcity - Uri Neren. By Uri Neren | 9:00 AM January 14, 2011. Innovation by firing people. Google's Larry Page on Why Moon Shots Matter. Larry Page lives by the gospel of 10x. Most companies would be happy to improve a product by 10 percent. Innovation by firing people. The Ten Myths of Innovation: the best summary. Does dedicated innovation time work? I wrote a popular post awhile ago with an analysis on the Google’s 20% time concept. Howard Baldwin from Computerworld interviewed me about this.
Sadly, none of my comments made it into his article. The good news is here are the questions he asked with my answers. The 5 best books on Innovation EVER. The Ten Myths of Innovation: the best summary.