Clayton Christensen’s The Innovators Dilemma is a business classic, providing a framework for understanding how technological or business model innovations (or more usually, both) allow… Read More »Resources: Clayton Christensen on disruptive innovation
… isn’t an innovation yet. Our definition of innovation refers to something rather specific: A change in the processes by which an organization transforms labor,… Read More »The innovation in your head…
Make something useful For lots of people Capture some of that value so that you can do it again The more useful what you do… Read More »Value: more of more?
Here’s Mark Andreessen on the A16z podcast summarising what it means for software to eat the world: [In the original 2011 essay] I made three… Read More »Podcast recommendation: Mark Andreessen on Software Eating the World (2019)
A high enough price If you want to help a lot of people, you’ll need to do your job well and for a long time… Read More »Resources about setting prices
There is no money shortage. It might not be where you’d like it, and there might not be people lining up to give it to… Read More »No shortage of money
Here’s the secret, I think: teaching is empathy.If you have a bad teacher, who is strict for no reason, who says “there will be a… Read More »Seth Godin on good teachers
The pattern of hybridity, imitation and innovation we talk about under the label “combinatorial innovation” isn’t limited to cars and computers – it’s central to… Read More »Zen Hae on cross-pollination, imitation and innovation in Indonesian Peranakan literature
I’ve just spent a thoroughly enjoyable day at the first Jakarta International Literary Festival. I sat in on two Symposiums*: The Southern Common Themes Dilemma,… Read More »Canon: fences and trampolines
The most important thing to remember now a simple sentence: “It’s not for you.” … So you run an Indian restaurant on 6th Street in… Read More »Seth Godin on listening to feedback