The Underestimated Advantage
While being underestimated is a classic melody, it’s still one the biggest competitive advantages an innovator can have.
While being underestimated is a classic melody, it’s still one the biggest competitive advantages an innovator can have.
Issues are abstract, but people and their emotions are real. We decide with emotion and justify (read: fool ourselves) with logic.
What are the three things you spend most of your time doing – not intending to do, but actually doing? Do they sync up with what matters most to you?
What if instead of worrying about how to divide the success of an outcome we focused on creating something worth dividing?
What’s the best way to start a meeting? The answer may seem trivial, but it’s transformative.
Inclusion isn’t about finding a one-size-fits-all solution. One size doesn’t fit all.
You can learn a lot from your competitors and their products, services, or offerings. You can learn even more from your competitors’ clients, customers, or users.
James Altucher and others popularized the idea of becoming an “idea machine” with the practice of developing your ideation muscles by generating 10-20 ideas per day. But how do you develop your innovation, problem solving, and creativity muscles?

Steel, paper currency, the transistor, and penicillin. There are but a few examples of the lengthy journey from invention to breakthrough innovation. Invention can be fairly rapid, sudden, and dramatic. But converting invention to innovation is typically long, arduous, and hard.
To successfully navigate change, leaders and organizations need to change—not just in how we behave as individual people and entities, but in how we interact with others.
Trying to be all things dilutes and muddies a clear purpose. Failing to draw boundaries pulls you back from the edges of possibility and innovation. If you want to know what something is for, get clear about what it’s not for.

Oftentimes, we tend to think of our own observations as facts. We think we believe what we believe because we’re right, but this isn’t the case and it limits our perspectives
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