Do you know what product managers do? Do you know what startup founders do? In my view, the skill set for each of the above is pretty much the same. Product managers need to have the skill set to manage envisioning a product from inception to launch and beyond. The same for startup founders. But,…
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You are an innovator – and you are proud to be an innovator. You pride yourself on listening to your customer’s desires and building products which do just that. The only problem is: your customer’s job-to-be-done is not aligned with your company’s job-to-be-done. You’ve researched deeply – you’ve looked at the market – you’ve talked…
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I want to go into Mimetic Theory in a little more detail – I’ve just been reading René Girard’s Mimetic Theory (Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture), and the author makes some fascinating points. If we assume that Mimetic Theory has some basis in fact (if you’d like to read more about it, you can…
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Have you ever noticed that almost everything in our world ends up in two camps? Democrat or Republican, Liberal or Conservative, Jeep or Bronco, Black or White, Male or female? For some reason, we tend to simplify things down to a binary choice – maybe it’s easier for our brains to process – instead of…
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Our world is rife with many examples of unintended consequences. Is it really possible that most people don’t think about the far-reaching effects of their actions and only focus on the short-term benefits? Not so surprising when you realize that very few individuals think or plan further than a few weeks or months out. When…
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Many startup founders (or corporate innovators) have an issue with the concept of an MVP. The definition of a Minimum Viable Product varies greatly – but in the purest sense, it should be “the least you can do” For example, I co-founded a startup in 2009 with two ex-Yahoo colleagues. We’d started as a consulting shop…
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Lately, many books have been released about how the only way to create lasting change is to move in tiny increments. I beg to differ. Books like Tiny Habits espouse the currently trendy movement which pushes this theory – which is that you can change, but the best way to change is slowly, over time,…
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One of the most challenging things to convince people is the essential need to “look farther out.” Most people are so focused on the very near term – looking no more than a year or a quarter out, that they never lift their gaze into the future. They feel that strategic foresight is: Nice to…
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Over the last few months, we’ve had major crises that have mostly affected major urban centers or cities. Does this mean that the prominence of cities is over? How does that affect you? First, the COVID-19 pandemic forced everyone globally to shelter-in-place. Large cities worldwide went into lockdown, forcing employees who could work from home…
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You’ve probably heard a variation of this quote a thousand times: Ideas don’t matter. Ideas are a dime-a-dozen. Execution matters. This statement, like Schroedinger’s Cat being both dead and alive, is both true and not accurate. Execution matters, but ideas matter too. Of course, you might think this is self-evident. Maybe the only reason why…
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