Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog
JULY 1, 2013
A few years ago, I had the opportunity to converse with Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon. They kept solving those unsolvable problems,” Armstrong added, “until one day, there I was—walking the lunar surface.”. Making the Impossible Possible. And here we are, a little over fifty years later.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 26, 2013
Why do some innovations flourish while others flounder? Atul Gawande tackles this question in The New Yorker , using the medical field — arguably one of the places where innovation is most important, given its life-saving capabilities — as ground zero. You have to use mentorship to make an innovative idea the norm.
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Harvard Business Review
APRIL 4, 2017
” The notion of moonshots is a hugely appealing idea, whether you are an enterprise working on a market innovation, a nonprofit organization tackling societal problems, or a government trying to govern better. How can we get the moonshot formula right to unlock this approach to groundbreaking innovation?
Strategy Driven
NOVEMBER 15, 2010
Think about it this way: You likely spend countless hours collaborating and innovating to put forth really good ideas. For example, Neil Armstrong used the six hours and forty minutes between his moon landing and first step to craft his historic statement. Use catchy words. Take time to carefully craft a few messages with catchy words.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 5, 2013
A lot of small-firm owners and managers feel that way, and in many cases they’re justifiably proud of their competitive intangibles—a gut sense of the market and the flexibility to change quickly. They were quick to adopt a more formalized approach to marketing planning. From Data to Action An HBR Insight Center.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 13, 2013
Many have to measure their success in terms of stock price and market share, and when those slip, everyone sees it happening, reads about it in the business pages, watches it on CNBC. Repeatedly Armstrong told his staff that anyone not fully invested in Patch should leave. .” How do the best CEOs confront that challenge?
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 27, 2012
There was Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech, delivered at the age of 34, and Neil Armstrong walking on the surface of the moon at the age of 38. New infrastructures have arisen to support it, from the Stanford Social Innovation Review , TED and Good , to the Social Enterprise Program at Harvard.
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