We like to think that success always breeds more success, but often it breeds failure. When we hit on a model that works, we hone and optimize it leverage market conditions. When those market conditions change, we find ourselves vulnerable. The only way out of this trap is to always explore and experiment. Every…
To overcome disruption for the long term, simply moving faster is NOT enough. You need to solve fundamental problems and that takes a long, sustained effort. To learn more, check out my blog post on Digital Tonto: Everybody Should Be Pursuing A Grand Challenge — Here’s Why:
If you’d like to learn more, check out my blog post on Digital Tonto, Don’t Look For a Great Idea, Find A Good Problem
All too often, we only pay attention to innovations when they hit the market and forget about everything it took to get them there. Innovation is never a single event. It’s a process of discovery, engineering and transformation. To learn more, check out my blog post: Innovation Is Never A Single Event
We’re entering a new era of innovation! In the years to come the pendulum will to swing from iterating and adapting to new applications to developing fundamentally new technologies. The next few decades are likely to look much more like 1950s and 1960s than the 1990s of 2000s. To learn more, check out my…
Episode 6: Start with the “Why Not?” Simon Sinek says that we should “Start with the why,” but often we can go further by starting with the question, “Why not?” It is by traveling down unlikely paths, we end up in unexpected places that take us in new directions. To learn more, check out my…
One of the mantas of the digital age has been, “You need to adapt to survive.” But the truth is that once you find the need to adapt, you are already losing. Notice how nobody talks about how Apple adapted to the smartphone or how Google adapted to the search engine. Great companies don’t…
The toughest part of any job is to start, but the sooner you get your work out in the open, the faster the flaws can be exposed and fixed. That’s why the best way to produce anything you is to dare to be crap. To learn more, check out my blog post on Digital Tonto:…
If you’re doing something truly new and different, don’t immediately seek out the largest addressable market. Look for a “hair on fire” use case, customers who need your product so badly that they almost literally have their hair on fire. Those are the ones who will be willing working to work with you, help you…