Business success is a function of knowledge — the right knowledge at the right time applied in the right way. But knowledge is always scarce and incomplete and sometimes wrong. It is best to regard …
Creativity Is Protest.
Where does creativity come from? Ex nihilo - from nothing. Neurons in your brain somehow reassemble themselves into a new pattern, following a new path to a different arrangement. You recognize the …
155. Bart Vanderhaegen on Flow: Transcending Organizational Barriers to Progress
We all seek progress: at the individual level, the team level, and the company level. Flow is the term for the experience that we feel when we are making progress on challenging …
Customers Are Your Firm’s Capital. Invest In Them.
In a book titled "Who Do You Want Your Customers To Become?", Michael Schrage identifies customers as a firm's human capital. The purpose of a firm, in his construct, is to design future customers: to …
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154. Henrik Berglund: Entrepreneurship As Design
For entrepreneurs, design is not just lines and shapes and colors and decoration, and it’s not just the look and functioning of a website or a building or another object. It’s a process of advancing …
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Do We Need The Contra-Capitalist Big Corporations?
Big tech. Big pharma. Big food. Big banks. Big oil. We’ve got questions about all of them. Big tech is surveilling us and stealing our privacy. Big pharma is exploiting us and poisoning us. Big food …
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