innovation
The answer, I think, is what it almost always is: that inventors are simply extremely rare. People can have all the incentives, all the materials, all the mechanical skills, and even all the right general notions of how things work. As we’ve seen, even Savery himself was apparently inspired by the same ancient experiment as everyone else who worked... See more
Anton Howes • Age of Invention: Why wasn't the Steam Engine Invented Earlier? Part III
It’s not that entrepreneurs are natural rule-breakers. Rather … they want self-direction. They aren’t going to take the world at face value. They have to figure it out for themselves.
If you have unconventional ideas, you can create a large impact by forcing those ideas onto people and systems that exist in conventional institutions
-Palmer Luckey
P&G used to have somebody in charge of what they called commercial innovation, which is broadly defined as selling your product in different ways, without fundamentally changing the product itself.
Rail travel is a great example of an industry that is ripe for commercial innovation.
In Germany they have the BahnCard. A 25, 50, or 100 BahnCard are... See more
Rail travel is a great example of an industry that is ripe for commercial innovation.
In Germany they have the BahnCard. A 25, 50, or 100 BahnCard are... See more
Rory Sutherland on LinkedIn: #creativity #behaviouralscience #traintravel #positioning | 155 comments
Innovators are usually synthesizers—they synthesize everything they know and add their own personal talents, and out comes something new.
When you’re focused on something few others are thinking about, you find yourself constantly making the case to yourself and others that your vision is worth pursuing and worthy of other people’s attention. This ongoing need to justify your work creates a significant emotional overhead.