The best people need to be working on the biggest opportunities, not the biggest problems. With our core product driving 100 percent of the revenues, yet in serious decline, it was counter-intuitive to take our best people away from it. However, if we hadn’t done that, the…
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Cliff Lerner • Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing My Startup To 100 Million Users & Losing $78 Million
Most existing processes inside of a company are structured to safeguard the company, which is at odds with innovation and trying new things.”
Diana Kander • The Curiosity Muscle: How Four Simple Questions Can Uncover Powerful Insights and Exponential Growth
Avoid inertia. Periodically revisit your processes and ask whether they are serving their purpose. Organizations sometimes adopt routines and structures that become crystallized, impeding positive change. Efforts to reform education in the United States, for example, have been met with resistance from teachers and administrators who prefer the stat
... See moreMichael J. Mauboussin • Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition
Those who succeed combine stable design elements with dynamic elements that change as markets change and strategy changes. It's a rare opportunity for organizations to identify their stable backbone and set them up so that they can change dynamically. Successful leaders and successful companies use these changes to "rebuild the future"—but a landsc... See more
McKinsey • Getting organizational redesign right
With this goal in mind, companies of one routinely question everything they do. Is this process efficient enough? What steps can be removed and the end result will be the same or better? Is this rule helping or hindering our business?
Paul Jarvis • Company of One: Why Staying Small is the Next Big Thing for Business
The most important question as an investor these days, or a founder or executive making a career decision is: Going industry by industry, how much refactoring is there to be done?
Even when faced with overwhelming change, day in and day out we fall prey to the enormous gravitational pull of business as usual. Despite the best intentions, business leaders spend the majority of their time focusing on tactical issues, delivering short-term results to investors, and managing daily fire drills rather than shaping strategy and def
... See moreKate Purmal • The Moonshot Effect: Disrupting Business as Usual
Alongside all the conventional questions were ones about what to do when the limits of analysis had been reached and the way forward was still not clear; questions about when to move away from an existing competitive advantage and when to try to stay the course; questions about reinventing a business or identifying a new purpose, a new reason to ma
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