First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Karl Ronn is the managing director of Innovation Portfolio Partners. Based in Palo Alto, he helps Fortune 500 companies create new businesses or helps entrepreneurs start category creating new companies. He is also developing a software company building diagnostic competency for […].

Levitt 99

Levitt Kotter Christensen Rogers 99

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

What has emerged from these conversations is that while everyone’s experiences under pressure are unique, pressure follows patterns and develops in predictable ways. Outside of the SEALs, he’s run meetings in the White House Situation Room, negotiated international arms treaties, and developed high-impact corporate strategies.

Books 453

Books Leadership Open-book Wiseman 453

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2020

When opening a business, the one thing that any budding entrepreneur wants is for it to be as successful as possible. How can you beat your competitors and get to potential customers first, but vibrantly and innovatively? Let your artistic flair go wild and read on for more! Social Media.

Creativity 80

Creativity Marketing Media Brand 80

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Entrepreneurship has seldom been sexier, with the press overwhelmed with stories of technological disruption and the tremendous changes emerging across society as a result of the bold and courageous innovators that are bucking the norm. Are we all entrepreneurs now? Hype run wild. in 1985 to just 5.3% A decline in disruption.

Venture Capitalist 52

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Incubator GDP 52

Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Any entrepreneur will relate to the journey, and any would-be entrepreneur will find it enlightening. And creating an innovative culture: Real innovation comes not from top-down pronouncements and narrowly defined tasks. So the trick is to take your idea and set it on a collision course with reality as soon as possible.

Learning-by-Doing 42

Learning-by-Doing Entrepreneur Wilde CEO 42

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

What they don’t do well enough is reinvent and innovate. Sure, there are exceptions who are both visionary CEOs and innovators — Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, for example — but there are very few companies that can stomach that sort of leadership. So if the CEO isn’t someone who can innovate, then who should?

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur CTO Business Model CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2012

"You have to deliver $300 million in incremental growth by 2015," the business unit head told the leader of his innovation team. While $300 million might sound like a ridiculously large number to small business owners or entrepreneurs, leaders in many global giants consider the amount a drop in the bucket.

Innovation 14

Innovation Planning Kahneman Tversky 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

While it's written from my perspective, he was central to the development of the idea. We would examine my stalled plans in order to better understand how people make progress, and more specifically, what leads us to innovate. Vision is essential for innovation. How's your book launch coming?" Bob asked me.

Innovation 17

Innovation Incubator Business Model Wilde 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

Any promising new initiative — a stand-alone business venture or an innovation in an established organization — hits roadblocks and unexpected obstacles. Recently I''ve advised entrepreneurs and innovators about a different, seemingly better, dilemma: pop-up opportunities that look like short cuts to success.

Innovation 8

Innovation Porter Merchandising Entrepreneur 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

…And the Clients Went Wild! : And the Clients Went Wild! Perfect your marketing mix and win with …And the Clients Went Wild! If you aren’t sure where to get started, take a cue from other companies that have taken innovation to heart and used it to successfully win and keep customers. Do what works!

Wilde 62

Wilde Tactics Advertising Brand 62

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Develop those contacts as a ladder to reach higher, but more challenging, prospects. Test business development, starting with advice from your banker, accountant, and lawyer. Many career-enhancing activities can develop from carefully chosen volunteer-based projects. We can leverage each other’s expertise.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2014

It lies behind successful product companies like Apple, Dropbox, and Kickstarter, but it can also lead entrepreneurs predictably to failure. But only because Facebook felt that, despite being developed with existing customers in mind, the technology would be appealing to non-gamers for the purpose of messaging and social networking.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Advice Disruptive Innovation CRM 9

Women in the LEAD

JANUARY 25, 2010

  Business, professionals, academics, innovators, entrepreneurs, governments and public bodies alike have to care and have to take up these challenges practically.   This is the time to believe in our feminine gifts and to develop them.   We must educate ourselves and our young girls to this fact. 

Letter 49

Letter Globalization Simon Committee 49

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

The intellectual leader of the movement is Steve Blank , a serial entrepreneur who now teaches at Stanford and the University of California at Berkeley. I'm a huge fan of this work and suggest that all innovators study the movement closely. After a few months, I cancelled my Maghound membership.

Productivity 14

Productivity Products Ries Mintzberg 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

I had worked for over a decade to develop relationships with Latin American business leaders, several of whom were on Forbes' billionaire list. Notwithstanding the considerable career and financial (I am the primary breadwinner) risks involved, it was time to leave my comfortable perch and become an entrepreneur.

Disruptive Innovation 16

Disruptive Innovation Christensen Metrics Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

In 1986, Lotus Development Corporation announced the latest version of its (at the time) wildly popular 1-2-3 spreadsheet, one that now sported a spiffy new "undo" feature. Paul Kedrosky is an investor, entrepreneur, and a senior fellow at the Kauffman Foundation. It was a big deal. Undo was new again a few years later.

Early Adopters 15

Early Adopters Norton Wilde Software 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. legal system is already having trouble keeping up with the pace of developments in transportation.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2011

He's brash, colorful, outspoken — in terms of his style, he personifies the sense of freedom and innovation that drives so many businesspeople today. But I'm with Brooks and his words of warning against the cult of self-fulfillment. In fact, true success requires you to flip that logic on its head.

IPO 16

IPO Wilde Brand CEO 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2015

Surveys indicate that more than 30 percent of the top 300 largest global brands are now using or evaluating 3D printing (often with printing technology in-house) whether for prototyping and other innovation projects or in actual production of what they sell. Wild cycles, for sure. Some aren’t so young but have kids doing that.

Technology 8

Technology Learning Curve Tips Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

And while the competition among VC firms to fund the next big thing is fierce, Greylock has an advantage, as Medium’s Ev Williams notes: "The thing I heard, time after time, was David [Sze, a Greylock partner] was always trying to do the right thing for the entrepreneur." Recently, Surowiecki notes, the U.S.

Engineering 8

Engineering Welch Media Wilde 8

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

It’s easy to let yourself off the hook as a busy entrepreneur. The healthy habits that I attribute to my success as a leader are practice what I preach, set healthy boundaries, practice mindfulness, exercise, work hard and invest in my ongoing learning and personal development. Fail forward so you don’t succeed backwards.

Succession 316

Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

Some entrepreneurs and executives fight to hold onto business at all costs, recognizing that it’s easier to retain a customer than to win a new one. Board development? Even Best Buy, the originator of the innovative “Results Only Work Environment” program, later rescinded it.) Strategic planning? Sure, why not?

Cialdini 8

Cialdini Consultative Marketing Strategy Media 8

Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 12, 2022

Always open to new challenges, he seized the opportunity to lead a university with facilities that were a bit long in the tooth and that lacked any signs of innovating in the future. . So how did he meet the challenge of changing the staid academic culture to one that is today unique and innovative? As Roger Clodfelter, Senior V.P.

Case Study 70

Case Study Education Learning-by-Doing Brand 70

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

Innovators have to deal with particularly insidious lies — things that people say that they believe are true, but actually aren't. Innovators working on new ideas often show early versions to customers to assess "purchase intent." Lie #2: Product developer, "We'll be ready to ship in six months.".

Innovation 15

Innovation Market Segmentation Porter Sharpe 15

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in Running the business Financial People Business development Body of Knowledge The Big Picture No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. Niche Networkers.

Committee 51

Committee Learning-by-Doing Consultative Budgeting 51

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

My research into entrepreneurship’s role in job creation, my professional life as an entrepreneur and investor, and my experience as a one-time government official have led me to one conclusion: Entrepreneurship can solve big problems, but our government has not adequately leveraged this American-as-apple-pie tool in its foreign policy.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Policies Entrepreneur NGO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Also known as “token sales,” this new fundraising phenomenon is being fueled by a convergence of blockchain technology, new wealth, clever entrepreneurs, and crypto-investors who are backing blockchain-fueled ideas. ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S. Distributed Database.

Venture Capitalist 11

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

When you turn entrepreneur in India, you soon feel like the storybook character who wants to lead a simple life in a village. I was forced to shift from my initial focus on creating great content to setting up a distribution system, to coming up with an innovative in-shop presence to reach consumers, and so on.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Competitive Advantage Wilde Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Now consider the Business Innovation Factory (BIF) , an organization that seeks to bring cutting edge innovation techniques to social initiatives, many of which are similar to those Pepsi Refresh sought to promote. Its founder, Saul Kaplan , is a self-professed innovation junkie. Clearly, social initiatives are not a panacea.

Media 8

Media Marketing Strategy Groupthink Kaplan 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

In a recent HBR article, Paul Nunes and I introduced the term Big Bang Disruption to signify innovations that, thanks to rapidly advancing technology, come out of the box both better and cheaper than alternative solutions already in the marketplace. We call this the victory of “innovation by combine” over traditional “innovation by design.”.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Finance Venture Capitalist Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2016

We’ve only scratched the surface of ideas such as the internet of things; smart cities, homes, and energy grids; autonomous transportation; and much more that entrepreneurs will think up. You can see some of this illustrated in the expenditures chart below (originally created for an earlier article of mine on the U.S.

Wireless 8

Wireless Policies Proposal Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2017

But FarmLogs is not your typical technology start-up, and its founders, Jesse Vollmar and Brad Koch, are not your typical Silicon Valley-style entrepreneurs. This principle has led to a virtuous cycle of innovation that has driven our economy in previously unimaginable directions. Nearly all of its customers are in the Midwest.

Policies 8

Policies Content Long-term Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

public school classroom, he approached the task with the mentality of a successful serial entrepreneur. Thanks to the pace of change in information technology over the last quarter century, we have been conditioned to believe that a single innovative company driven by a visionary entrepreneur can change the world.

System 8

System Entrepreneur Telecommunications Policies 8