Uncertainty can drive opportunity. Uncertainty can also drive you mad and destroy your company. Bummer. Bill Welter (Adaptive Strategies), Kay Plantes (Plantes Company) and I have been discussing how the uncertainty caused by stronger, less predictable and more frequent disruptions can be as large a source of opportunity as it is a threat. We’ve been [...]
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Ways To Kill Business Innovation Through Analysis
Want to kill a good innovative idea? Analyze it in some obviously logical yet inappropriate way. It would be murder but you are unlikely to get caught. When thinking about this I always remember an old accounting example where we try to help the owner of a diner decide if it would be a good [...]
Physics and Ideation: Creativity and Mismatched Socks
I’ve been thinking about lessons we can take from the physics community to more successfully develop ideas — and I’ve been wearing mismatched socks. I blame Louisa Gilder and her wonderful exploration into the weird path physics took towards accepting entanglement over the past century. In 1964 John Bell lit a small fire at the [...]
A Reminder Of Key Principles | Inside Drucker’s Brain
I’ve read a lot of Peter F. Drucker over the years, so it’s nice to find a great distillation of his ideas in one place. Just finished Inside Drucker’s Brain by Jeffrey A. Krames and it is full of gems to remind us of Drucker’s no nonsense style. For business wonks who have never read [...]
Have You Fallen Into The Marketer’s Gap Of Despair?
Falling into the gap of despair leads to expensive mistakes in marketing communication at the same time when large investments in product development should be made. During a downturn this gap grows swallowing and destroying marginal products and services. Unfortunately, it can also grow to include entire product categories. Have you fallen into the gap [...]
