High Performance & Innovation Coach
“The best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.” — Michael Arrington, TechCrunch founder and co-editor If you’re an innovator or Entrepreneur, you don’t have to quite your day job. You can innovate inside of a big corporation, too. The question is, how can you launch a successful startup within an established …
“Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up.” — Pablo Picasso Have you heard someone saying “I hate it when…”, or “I wish it was…”, or “Why wouldn’t they…”? This is the sweet sound of opportunity banging on your door begging you to innovate and solve a problem …
This is a technique I used on Satya Nadella’s Innovation team to ignite ideas and speed up disruptive innovation. It’s writing mock press releases to frame and share big ideas. If you want to create better business ideas to grow and innovate, start with the moch press release approach. Writing up a mock press release …
“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try.” — Dr. Seuss Creative thinking is a skill and you can learn it. You can think up more ideas and better ideas if you practice. You just need to know how to practice …
I found a way to explore more and churn less on incubation (i.e. R&D) projects. It helps to think of your project experiments and key risks in terms of these three categories and in this order: user experience technical feasibility business value Sequence matters. If you don’t get the user experience right first, who cares …
