Why Experimentating Beats Planning
Let’s be honest: You have no idea what’s going to happen to your industry. That’s why you build your organization into an engine of possibility. Technology is a bitch. It affects every industry, often...
View ArticleWhy Moon Shots Matter: The Logic of 10x
Larry Page lives by the gospel of 10x. Most companies would be happy to improve a product by 10 percent. Not the CEO and cofounder of Google. The way Page sees it, a 10 percent improvement means that...
View ArticleCan We Please Stop Talking About “Failure” and Start Focusing on “Learning”
The work of problem-choosing, problem-framing, experimenting and learning is what entrepreneurs do. On Oct. 11, 1868, a young and ambitious telegrapher from northern Ohio applied for a patent for an...
View ArticleFail better: First microinsurance agency proves the point of failure
“Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” Samuel Beckett’s words could almost have been written about social innovation. In a new series on failure, Farrukh Khan, director of Acumen Pakistan says failing...
View ArticleMoments of truth
“Sometimes the truth is hard to hear, often it is not what you thought when you started, but the best founders create these moments of truth early and often– through the pain of getting the product...
View ArticleCan We Please Stop Talking About “Failure” and Start Focusing on “Learning” –...
How the ‘Failure’ Culture of Startups Is Killing Innovation Far from being the measure of disgrace it once was, failure now seems to be a sort of badge of honor. But underlying many popular Silicon...
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