CorporateIntel

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Frequent readers of this blog know that I am obsessed with the concept of creative destruction , the intangible but daunting market force where an invention that is vital takes out that which has become defunct, and the nascent replaces the established. I think I may make this an annual feature. Why chronicle the abdicated?

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CorporateIntel

APRIL 26, 2021

You can live a relatively long time with just Air and Water, so you get to decide what constitutes Food and how to procure it creatively. . “Food” initiatives allow you some discretion.

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CorporateIntel

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Well, if Jeff Bezos who is currently sitting on top of the business world knows that sooner or later his company is toast, I think that is about as telling a tale of creative destruction as I can imagine! Did I miss any for this year or in the near term gun sights of creative destruction? Penney, and Radio Shack.

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CorporateIntel

AUGUST 27, 2012

We know that to be Creative Destruction, an ever-present cycle, so when we criticize either an equity or a product as being a fad, let’s be careful to make the distinction, and even more careful not to level broad sweeping judgment that could lead to missed opportunity. .” Styles change, tastes change, brand loyalties change.

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CorporateIntel

DECEMBER 3, 2018

It’s called creative destruction. They all have unpredictable choices to make. It’s supposed to be that way. It’s how new companies are born and old companies die, or old companies are reborn through reinvention. My point has nothing to do with improving your stock portfolio.

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CorporateIntel

JUNE 13, 2012

I don’t think so, because the currency of the new economy is not instilled knowledge, it is creativity. Innovation is a direct reflection of creativity, not recitation. The fuel of innovation is creativity, and the fuel of creativity is fun. Sound familiar? Like professional sports perhaps?

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CorporateIntel

JANUARY 14, 2013

Yep, you could have found your way out, met the challenge of Creative Destruction, and banked the opportunity by reallocating resources from historic enterprises to future growth, but you didn’t. It’s even more perplexing when they know where it’s docked, what time it leaves, and who the captain of that departing ship is.

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CorporateIntel

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

There are conference rooms, shared spaces, and all kinds of creative gathering areas meant to protect the startup environment that is core to the company’s zeitgeist as it evolves into a corporate behemoth. Oh, about that bias of mine—I believe anything in a company that leads to entrenched fiefdoms stalls creativity.

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CorporateIntel

APRIL 23, 2016

He wrote the legendary book Only the Paranoid Survive , published in 1996 and still a must-read for anyone who wants to understand innovation and the power of creative destruction. He was Intel’s CEO from 1987 to 1998, the famous “ Intel Inside ” years when personal computing exploded from the hobby to the consumer market.

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CorporateIntel

APRIL 4, 2016

They also are driven to create jobs and help drive our economy forward through innovation and creativity. Their moxie is beautifully balanced by their pragmatism, and their focus is on doing some important with their lives much more than achieving personal wealth. Oh, and they also like to have fun! Join us in helping to change the world!

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CorporateIntel

AUGUST 6, 2017

We talk about creativity and innovation, passion for excellence, dedication to the customer experience. Every once in a while we do talk again and then I tend to get involved in long stretches of dialogue with team members up and down the line. We talk about a lot of things: leadership talent, product quality, business model.

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CorporateIntel

APRIL 9, 2018

.” AOL actually didn’t do that—the internet itself obviated its driving purpose—but rather than build on the goodwill of its access brand and attempt to enhance the customer experience through creativity, the company sought to keep customers in a “ walled garden ” and intervene in easy access to the open internet.

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CorporateIntel

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Creative risk is the path of reinvention. Experiments are the fuel of innovation. Writing a novel is just weird. This week my first novel, This is Rage , is being released to the public by my wonderful publisher, The Story Plant. I have to admit, it’s a little eerie.

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CorporateIntel

JULY 9, 2014

That’s what creative destruction is all about, old failed systems being replaced by better ones. Think you can apologize and win back my trust? You can’t. Maybe I have choices at the moment, maybe I don’t. If I don’t have choices now, I will soon. Constraints on distribution are lifted from entrenchment every day.

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CorporateIntel

JULY 8, 2015

All through these periods of business creativity and innovation, I never had much trouble calling myself a writer, because I felt pretty good about my ability to form pithy sentences and get other people to take an interest in them.

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CorporateIntel

APRIL 13, 2015

Imagine being sharp, creative, and personal in asking for the business. Imagine doing your homework, preparing a written, phone, or in-person pitch that speaks to your desire to do a job that will capture a client’s imagination. Imagine following through with a great job that exceeds customer expectations.

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CorporateIntel

JANUARY 30, 2013

Beating back the challenges of creative destruction is hard enough work. Solve a customer’s problem and exceed their expectations, lifetime value continues and they might even go to bat for you with their friends. Is being nice to the people who pay your bills really that hard?

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CorporateIntel

MAY 24, 2013

I used the blog to pace writing the novel from the blank page through countless rewrites, and sure enough it all came together this year right before Memorial Day.

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CorporateIntel

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

I have had the privilege to lead a handful of creative companies and I have had the privilege to be a published author. They were always very, very tough on themselves, an order of magnitude more thrashing than what any bleacher critic was or even could have been. In all cases I was told innumerable times why I would not be successful.

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CorporateIntel

AUGUST 2, 2016

It’s been an amazing journey, including creative development and four public readings of my stage adaptation. About three years ago I published my first novel, This Is Rage. Now we have something additionally exciting to announce: the first three episodes of a podcast adaptation.

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CorporateIntel

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

They are taking the message of People, Products, Profits into corporations all over the world, helping executives perform better with a grounded human approach that unlocks creativity and makes innovation happen. Teaching this workshop has been a rare opportunity. 11) The FDA just banned trans fats.

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CorporateIntel

DECEMBER 30, 2012

Your core remains your ideas — conviction, creativity, and vision — but how you express those ideas better to achieve consensus, how you improve your message, how you harness the power of a devoted following to add their deeply personal beliefs to the mix and build a unified voice with impact, that is where data is your friend.

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CorporateIntel

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I started writing for The Good Men Project in its second year of life, offering to share some of my thoughts on business, creative leadership, and management also published on my own blog. In its third year I joined the board of directors and became a strategic advisor to the CEO. ” What is this Good Man Project?

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CorporateIntel

MARCH 5, 2012

Recently in response to my post Creativity and Courage , a friend called me to brainstorm how to more aggressively nudge his company into the 21st Century. If your company is asking what are its core values and how its value propositions can become relevant to new generations of customers, transformation has begun.

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CorporateIntel

APRIL 11, 2013

I think Lou, a bestselling author himself, is at the forefront of New Publishing in the same way Wolfe wanted New Journalism to embrace the opportunities of Creative Destruction as a positive force for change.

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CorporateIntel

JUNE 8, 2015

They were expertly written, performed, and engineered with creative courage that resulted in textured, lasting impact. Absent historical and social context, most of these carefully crafted works could just as well have been recorded today and simultaneously sound modern and classic. 3) The Beatles (The White Album) by The Beatles.

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CorporateIntel

JUNE 22, 2012

This can bring to bear a cruel process of creative destruction on entrenched competitors without the willingness or vision to change, but in our current economic landscape, it can offer a steady flow of more efficient business endeavors that inspire imagination and eliminate unnecessarily inflated costs.

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CorporateIntel

JANUARY 4, 2016

They serve a legal function much more than a creative function. They are like school report cards, only less well-meaning and more poorly formed. They make the workplace more political, needlessly enforcing nerve-wracking centers of power. They don’t make products better and they don’t serve customer needs.

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CorporateIntel

AUGUST 14, 2012

It will be teamwork, commitment, creativity, motivation, and entrepreneurial spirit. I hope enough people at home were paying attention, partly because the landing was worthy of our attention, but more because when you think about it in the abstract, there is more application than meets the eye.

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CorporateIntel

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

The promise of the start-up is to build something new with heartfelt values at its core, and in closely held companies at modest scale it is much easier for founders to maintain the kind of personal mission and creative culture that reflects this entrepreneurial DNA.

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CorporateIntel

JULY 8, 2013

Creative destruction, you say, the natural course of things business? If companies have it so right, why are brands evaporating from the landscape in record time? Why are fully capitalized companies lasting half as long as the average human lifespan? Well, sure, I’ll give you that.

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CorporateIntel

APRIL 1, 2012

When QA is wound into the culture of a company, it is often because of the mutual and shared respect an organization has for the value of Quality as an intrinsic good that will most likely yield extrinsic rewards, but carries reward for itself in the form of realized creativity and pride.

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CorporateIntel

MAY 15, 2014

I care that he is a creative leader, with half his life likely still ahead of him to teach us things we don’t know and take us places we couldn’t otherwise find. Musk is doing that, which to me looks like real leadership, and it feels good to applaud him. I don’t care that he is a billionaire.

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CorporateIntel

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Business enterprise and creativity are as fundamental to a shared sense of values as I can imagine, and where we may often disagree on the “how” I hope we don’t much disagree on the “why.” ” Together we create our economy, our opportunities, and our experiment in progress called democracy.

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CorporateIntel

OCTOBER 28, 2013

No company is safe from creative destruction, not even Apple. If they did, they probably already would have done something about it. Brands are not invincible. They don’t fly with a safety net. Customer loyalty has to be won anew at every touchpoint. And you thought your own 40th birthday guiding you into middle age was scary, huh?

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CorporateIntel

MARCH 18, 2015

When I’m called to look at a creative company and I don’t see those words at play, they flow freely from my lips. .” Those are the business words I have tried to live by these last three decades, part rallying cry, part personal philosophy, part sanity meter. There’s a reason. This book is about those words.

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CorporateIntel

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

That’s sort of like asking the creative team who made the original movie version of Wings how they would have made it a talkie. If Cinemaware had a chance to expand on Wings, what do you think could be better developed or explored?

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