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“What interests me is the role businesses can play in creating trends—and I'm particularly interested in trends that influence society in a positive way.
David Mattin • Trend-Driven Innovation
inside a company.
James Allen • The Founder's Mentality
His life’s work is devoted to helping experts build better businesses.
David C. Baker • The Business of Expertise: How Entrepreneurial Experts Convert Insight to Impact + Wealth
To fully capture the unique dynamic forces that are at play in a given culture, all stakeholders must participate in answering questions like: Who are we? What brings us together? What do we collectively value?
Joseph Michelli • The Zappos Experience: 5 Principles to Inspire, Engage, and WOW
But now, deep-running social, technological, and customer shifts mean that around the world people are no longer living the lives determined for them by their demographics. Liberated from traditional ideas about the lives they “should” live given their age, gender, income bracket, and more, these people are instead constructing lifestyles and ident
... See moreDavid Mattin • Trend-Driven Innovation
As they grow companies tend to become more and more unidimensional, driven partially by market forces but also by the inevitable ossification of the top-down administrative and bureaucratic needs perceived as necessary for operating a traditional company in the modern era. Change, adaptation, and reinvention become increasingly difficult to effect,
Geoffrey West • Scale
company of one questions growth and stays small on purpose.
Paul Jarvis • Company of One: Why Staying Small is the Next Big Thing for Business
Trends arise when external change unlocks new ways to serve fundamental human needs.
David Mattin • Trend-Driven Innovation
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