Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn’t know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.
AARON LEVIEIn the enterprise you want to start intentionally small.
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Read these 3 books – Crossing the Chasm, Innovators Dilemma and Behind the Cloud.
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Look for new enabling technologies that create a wide gap between how things have been done and how they can be done.
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The only barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product.
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A lot of being productive personally is determined by how you organize your entire business. You can’t separate those two things.
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Companies have never won. You’re always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.
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Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it’s being done right now.
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I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that’s cliche, I don’t know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.
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Sometimes things are the way they are and can’t be changed, other times it’s because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter.
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My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently.
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I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it’s important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It’s best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely.
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The IT model of the enterprise has become a lot more user lead.
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Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.
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That’s already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.
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Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great.
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You can look at the cost structure of an incumbent company and discover: where are they not going to be able to drop their prices… because that business model is fundamental to the existence of the company.
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