149 7 Components That Make For A Great Startup Company Culture
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JANUARY 24, 2019
Startups boast about their culture, but most of the time they can’t even explain why it’s special.
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When An Organization Minimizes The Fear People Feel On The Job, Performance is Maximized
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JANUARY 22, 2019
What drives someone to complain? Selfishness and frustration. Last week I published a post about complaining , driven by selfish reasons, and how it stands in our way of making progress. Today I’ll focus on frustration.
Cybersecurity in 2019: Key Trends and Innovations You Need to Know About
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FEBRUARY 13, 2019
Image by David Rangel. The world of cybersecurity is always in flux. New threats emerge as new technologies become more embedded – and companies both small and large struggle to keep up. One thing seems certain in 2019: that cybersecurity is big business.
How Can My Company Become More Customer-Centric?
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JANUARY 28, 2019
This is an interesting question I got asked recently, which has no straight-forward answer. To answer it, let’s breakdown what customer-centric means… To be customer-centric you have to care about your customers.
11 Proven Ways to Turn Your Culture into a Culture of Innovation
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Learn the 11 proven strategies that you can implement quickly to get every employee innovating and contributing to the growth of your company.
The Impact of Wearable Technology on Mobile Devices
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JANUARY 14, 2019
Wearable tech once seemed like a passing fad, but it’s now expected to more than double between the years of 2016 and 2020, indicating that it’s here to stay.
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6 Easy Ways To Boost Brain Power
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FEBRUARY 7, 2019
There are few parts of the body more critical than our brains. Not only for our cognitive processes such as concentration and analysis, but for regulating our bodily functions. Our brain is responsible for our breathing, for keeping our heart beating, for our blood pressure and sleep patterns.
The 15 Enemies of Innovation
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JANUARY 4, 2018
When I put my consultant hat on I have a very easy way to detect whether or not your company is committed to innovation, and whether or not it will: the way you lead and prioritize. My examination has nothing to do with capability, but with leadership.
Create! Don’t Compete
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DECEMBER 26, 2018
I’ve had many meetings with principals in large organizations and companies who say, “I am worried my business will be completely replaced by some Silicon Valley startup. How can I build something to counter that?”.
We Need To Think About Failure Differently To Drive Innovation
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AUGUST 18, 2017
Yesterday I gave a talk to Foxconn employees and Directors about culture and how it drives innovation. A good way to frame culture is like this: what you reward and what you punish.
6 Ways to Build a Successful Innovation Program
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Learn how forward-thinking leaders use crowdsourcing to impact their company’s bottom line through methods such as creating a culture of innovation.
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Why Audience Testing is a Vital Step in the Business Naming Process
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FEBRUARY 20, 2019
After days or maybe even weeks of brainstorming and crossing off every possibility, you have finally found the perfect business name. Or, at least you think so. When naming your business, you must think beyond what you as the business owner think of the name. It’s great if you like it, and it’s wonderful if your team likes it, but at the end of the day, it is best if your target customer is interested in your business name too.
The Emotion Philosophy Behind Emotion AI
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OCTOBER 31, 2018
After working for a year on emotion AI, I can confirm that human emotions are complex; we don’t really understand them. And training a computing system to recognize them as a human does is even more difficult.
How Borderlanders Prepare Us For The Future
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DECEMBER 13, 2018
My friend Rachel Christensen gave an insightful talk at TEDxTijuana titled Beyond Your Border , the story of borderlanders: those people whose lives exist in two countries and prepare us for the future! Two months ago I invited Rachel to talk about this topic on my podcast; check it out here.
Stan Lee: 3 Lessons To Unlock Your Inner Visionary
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NOVEMBER 13, 2018
Illustration by Christian Laborin. We lost a great one! Stan Lee, the creator of Spider-Man, The Hulk, Fantastic 4, X-Men and other super-heroes died yesterday. He leaves a legacy of inspiration behind that will keep inspiring many more generations.
Spigit's 2018 State of Crowdsourced Innovation Report
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A rigorous analysis of how the world’s largest brands – representing 21 different industry verticals – leverage their innovation programs to solve problems and surface opportunities, and the key role crowdsourcing plays in their success.
What Consensus Means For Driving Innovation
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DECEMBER 11, 2018
Why do organizations fail? There are many reasons, mostly because they become irrelevant by failing to evolve and adapt to a changing world.
Innovation is The Opposite of What We’re Pretending The Word Means
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MAY 3, 2017
Every once in a while someone says or writes something that is worth sharing. I want to introduce you to Tom Goodwin, who wrote a great piece called Why you probably don’t want innovation. His point is that everyone wants innovation without knowing what it means; which I agree with.
4 Essential Tips to Become a Thought Leader Using Videos
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JANUARY 29, 2019
Videos can be the perfect platform if you want to position yourself and become a thought leader in your industry. At the end of the day thought leadership is all about producing engaging content that guide and inspire others – and there is no medium more engaging than videos.
4 Mistakes To Avoid When Hiring Innovators
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OCTOBER 17, 2018
I’ve talked at length about how companies aiming to attract innovators to their organization shoot themselves in the foot , because the culture they have doesn’t embrace innovation. Still, let’s ask: How do you hire innovators?
Quantifying a Culture of Innovation
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Examining five years of anonymous data from over 6 million users in 170+ countries, Spigit has discovered that a culture of innovation can be measured – with a 99% statistical confidence level – by a metric called ideation rate. Download the eBook now for an in-depth look at this groundbreaking study.
Why You Should Master The Art Of Storytelling
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NOVEMBER 2, 2018
Humans have been telling stories for as long as anyone can remember. In fact, stories are the way we have a ‘collective memory’ at all.
VIDEO: How Emotions Are Made
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JANUARY 6, 2019
Just over a year ago I became CEO of Netek , where we developed emotion recognition technology through cameras and EEG.
Shift Your Mindset to Think Exponentially
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AUGUST 3, 2017
We’re living in exponential times, the Big 5 tech companies – Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook – occupy the top 6 spots of the most valuable companies in the world, thus driving the Next Economy. It’s safe to say that we live in a world dominated by technology.
People Walk Away When You Waste Their Time and Talent
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FEBRUARY 6, 2018
Miserable, undervalued, overlooked, not living up to my potential, taken for granted. These and other words are used by people who’s employeer doesn’t let them be the best version of themselves at work. Last week I met two very talented guys with high technical chops.
Data From 3.5 Million Employees Shows How Innovation Really Works
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Analysis of how 3.5 million employees using Spigit ideate proves innovation is a science, and can be measured.
It Isn’t Working Doesn’t Mean It Won’t Work
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JANUARY 2, 2019
One of the reasons people and organizations will never transform themselves is because they’re afraid of making mistakes. Either they never take risks, or they back out on the first sign something doesn’t work if they do make mistakes.
When Expertise Kills Innovation
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JULY 24, 2018
Expertise is valuable. To be successful, you want to be seen as an expert. Being an experts validates your worth, and provides a sense of certainty. In terms of innovation, expertise leads to incrementalism; or sustaining innovation.
The 3 P’s: Putting Innovation Into Practice
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AUGUST 7, 2018
In the innovation space, too much focus is placed on methods, not enough on mindset. Tools are the methodologies, mindset is the habits. One of my colleagues recently told me he’s learned about mentality, not processes, in the time he’s spent working with me. He’s right!
Innovation Dies When Fear Rules
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NOVEMBER 21, 2018
Whenever I get asked by executives about how their companies can innovate they expect me to respond with a prescriptive 3 to 5 point checklist of things that will solve all of their problems. Instead, I respond with a question: what are you doing to impede it?
5 Product Traps - And Better Paths
Speaker: Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group
Is your agile team overloaded with feature requests, with no time for discovery? Do your roadmaps read like impossible wish lists? Well, you’re not alone. It may seem impossible now, but what if we said that with a few changes, you could be meeting deadlines with the ability to predict progress with accuracy, be happy with your progress against the roadmap, and be making time for near-continuous discovery? Johanna Rothman has seen this all too often across many different organizations. She will take us through five common traps that agile product teams fall into – and likely you are in several of those traps right now. And good news - she has ways to avoid them!
25 Sources of Personal Competitive Advantage
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FEBRUARY 4, 2019
What gives you confidence that you have an advantage in any situation? Shane Parrish from Farnamstreet started an interesting thread on Twitter about sources of personal competitive advantage, check them out below. – Ability to persuade others – Ability to look stupid – Advanced Pattern recognition – Focus – Ability to say no. — Shane Parrish (@farnamstreet) January 31, 2019. That’s 15 sources, I’ll add 10 of my own here: Fearlessness.
6 Things You Should Stop Doing At Work Immediately In Order To Succeed
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JANUARY 16, 2019
From the department of keeping things simple, here’s a quick post that was inspired by a conversation I had last week with a friend. It’s common to talk with friends and family and hear them complain about their job; everyone does.
Misfit Manifesto: What Rebels Want From Their Boss
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APRIL 20, 2017
How do you lead and manage for innovation? Not all cultures where innovation thrives look the same, but they all have things in common. One of them is they all unleash their black sheep ; the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers. . How do you do that? You have to understand what drives them.
Is it better to solve problems in isolation or by collaborating with others?
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AUGUST 21, 2018
I’ve always believed that the best way to brainstorm is a hybrid of thinking by ourselves and then sharing that with a group to build on each other’s ideas; as opposed to brainstorming with a group from the start.
What Users Want: How and Why to Build Knowledge into Your Product
Speaker: Nils Davis, Principal, NPD Associates
Usage data allows PMs, the product team, and the whole organization to make better decisions. Good usage intelligence gives you the ability to be smarter, more active, more decisive, nimbler, and to minimize risk. But what if you don't have that data - such as before you have users? Or, what if the right decision seems to fly in the face of the data you have? Or, what if your product offers more than just the standard features? To get deeper into these questions, Nils Davis asks, "What is the most interesting thing about Instagram?" (Because who doesn't like a product that Facebook paid $1 billion for when it had fewer than 50 employees and no revenue?) Nils will use the example of Instagram’s Filters to talk about how putting prebuilt knowledge in your product can change the way your product is used for the better - putting you in the company of most market-leading products. Finally, he’ll tie it all together by explaining how the way you interpret and use usage data can impact the way your tell your product’s story, and ultimately, how your users use your product.
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