Kevin Kelly celebrated his birthday this year by sharing more pithy wisdom. Most of his nuggets of advice are great. These are my favourites: –… Read More »“If you think you saw a mouse, you did,” and other advice from Kevin Kelly
Yesterday I drew on the work of Clayton Christensen and Efosa Ojomo to identify 5 causes of non-consumption of products or solutions: Lack of awareness… Read More »Thinking again about market-creating innovations (2): Marketing Problems
If you’re working in a for- or not-for-profit organisation working for change – trying to make something happen that you think should be happening, or… Read More »Thinking again about market-creating innovations (1)
I’m still a bit sketchy on how market creating innovations are qualitatively different from sustaining and efficiency innovation, but these ideas are important. Highly recommended.… Read More »Efosa Ojomo (and Clayton Christensen) on market-creating innovation and overcoming barriers to consumption (2)
Yak Shaving: Any seemingly pointless activity which is actually necessary to solve a problem which solves a problem which, several levels of recursion later, solves… Read More »Yak Shaving
Good discussion of the dynamics of transient poverty vs persistent poverty, issues with The System and how hard it is to change, whether education helps,… Read More »Podcast recommendation: Mark Rank and Russ Roberts on poverty in the US (Econtalk)
Today marks 1000 consecutive days of posts on DriverlessCroc – very nearly coinciding with the 20,000th page view. It started with 100 days then went… Read More »1000 days
Could you, will you, make it happen? See also: The innovation in your head…The Toolkit Part 0: Action. Now.Marc Andreesen on ideas vs executionRoosevelt’s Man… Read More »That’s a great idea…
This ‘metaCroc’ post is part of a series recording the growth (or shrinkage) of DriverlessCrocodile in the spirit of experiment and in case the information… Read More »15-20k
Here’s another high leverage activity: staying fresh. It’s your job to bring energy and enthusiasm to your work. It’s your job to encourage, motivate and… Read More »Looking for levers (5): staying fresh