Content tagged with “innovation”

“Malcolm Gladwell could have written this book. It’s exactly like a Gladwell book – dozens of seemingly unrelated anecdotes and stories, ostensibly in support of a central thesis… but not really. Like, Gladwell, I’m convinced this author just wanted to tell stories. To do this, he needed an idea,…”

“A collection of stories about 20% and ‘skunkworks’ projects and what makes them tick. The stories were interesting – the first ones were slanted toward tech, and the later stories branched out – but I was having trouble drawing any common principles out of it. This was remedied somewhat in the…”

“I didn’t quite know what to do with this book. I think it was recommended to me by someone. It’s a collection of essays (?) about invention, innovation, and engineering. I read a half-dozen of them before bailing out. It was weird – I couldn’t figure out any thematic consistency to them. Then I…”

“This book is a legendary examination of how companies handle ‘innovation,’ by which the author means new aspects of their business that come out of nowhere and eventually come to dominate their markets. The problem: you can’t just give customers what they ask for. Because lots of customers actually…”

“This book was written 25 years ago, in 1995, right on the cusp of the Internet as we know it today. Bill Gates was the CEO of Microsoft at the time, and this book was really meant to be an look at the exciting things that we coming in the future. It’s chapter after chapter about how the…”