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Best Practices are Stupid

Stephen Shapiro

As you read this and the other chapters, please remember that this book was published back in 2011. For a company that stood to lose billions of dollars in cleanup costs, relief payouts, and lost sales due to bad publicity, this approach might indeed have been a good strategy. But I completely forgot to include the introduction.

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Why you need extreme constraints to fuel innovation

hackerearth

The team calls itself a curiosity driven research group at Stanford, trying to invent novel technologies with clinical applications with a current focus on resource-poor settings. CEO Marissa Mayer offered the same opinion writing for Businessweek in 2006: Some of the most innovative ideas have come from marketing and advertising.

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When innovation led to a reversal of fortunes

hackerearth

Jobs began by changing the company’s image and ran his “Think Different” advertising campaign, which glorified individuality. Apple has refashioned consumer experience with its iconic branding, stylish design and a diverse product range, its own retail stores, and important partnerships with the competition. and Apple came back.