innovation culture
“A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.”
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William F. Buckley
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William F. Buckley
A quote by William F. Buckley Jr.
No amount of trend research will help if findings are not integrated much earlier in the strategy process.
What so many organizations get wrong about marketing today is that they treat foresight, cultural intelligence and social listening as downstream efforts.
Too often, every single day, we attempt to map already finalized products to a mismatched... See more
What so many organizations get wrong about marketing today is that they treat foresight, cultural intelligence and social listening as downstream efforts.
Too often, every single day, we attempt to map already finalized products to a mismatched... See more
Matt Klein • Marketing Won't Save You. Your Consumers Will.
Two parables:
First, Ezra Pound’s parable of Agassiz, from his “ABC of Reading” (incidentally one of the most underrated books about literature). I’ve preserved his quirky formatting:
No man is equipped for modern thinking until he has understood the anecdote of Agassiz and the fish:
First, Ezra Pound’s parable of Agassiz, from his “ABC of Reading” (incidentally one of the most underrated books about literature). I’ve preserved his quirky formatting:
No man is equipped for modern thinking until he has understood the anecdote of Agassiz and the fish:
A post-graduate student equipped with honours and diplomas went to... See more
Nabeel S. Qureshi • How to Understand Things
Here is how Plutarch, classical biographer par excellence, described his attraction to the stories of great men:
We may say, then, that achievements of this kind, which do not arouse the spirit of emulation or create any passionate desire to imitate them, are of no great benefit to the spectator. On the other hand virtue in action immediately takes... See more
The Scholar's Stage • The Silicon Valley Canon: On the Paıdeía of the American Tech Elite
The Kuhn-Popper debate was a debate surrounding research methods and the advancement of scientific knowledge. In 1965, at the University of London's International Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science, Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper engaged in a debate that circled around three main areas of disagreement.[1] These areas included the concept of a... See more
Kuhn–Popper debate
In Part III, they continue to work through the ideas of philosophers Martin Heidegger and René Girard, exploring the metaphysics of both technology and desire. “For both thinkers, salvation doesn’t come from technology itself but from a transcendent outside,” they posit. They then cite Nick Land, the father of accelerationism, whose ideas have... See more
Byrne Hobart • Bubbling Up | ARENA
Metrics Are Poisoning You
This isn’t just about bad ideas, poor execution and apathy — it’s about the broader culture we’ve created around innovation. It’s become too hard to stop, reflect, interrogate and interject with fresh ideas, while KPIs run the show.
We’re not solving real problems; we’re searching for validation .
As marketer and author Rory... See more
This isn’t just about bad ideas, poor execution and apathy — it’s about the broader culture we’ve created around innovation. It’s become too hard to stop, reflect, interrogate and interject with fresh ideas, while KPIs run the show.
We’re not solving real problems; we’re searching for validation .
As marketer and author Rory... See more
Matt Klein • Self-Sabotaging Innovation: The Art of Doing Dumb Shit
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