Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Such a company learns to see what others can’t see—the emergent patterns and tendencies of an evolving world.
Carol Sanford • The Regenerative Business
Bhavishya was Unilever, and in particular, Tex Gunning, who was Dutch. Tex and Joseph Jaworski (one of the other founders of Generon Consulting) had together dreamed up a major intervention in the area of child malnutrition.
Joi Ito • The Social Labs Revolution
My view is that such a cooperative model (call it a union, a guild, or a federation) is bound to rise in the future as the most effective way to empower workers in the Entrepreneurial Age. But a paradigm shift is needed in terms of what the goals are and what kind of methods and tools should be used by those trade unions of the Entrepreneurial Age.
Nicolas Colin • Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age
"One kind of entrepreneur you say, Whose need am I satisfying today? [...] The other kind, to quote Michael Schraig here, is to say, the purpose of my business is to change people, to change them from something into something else. This is the kind of business that we remember generations later"
The most valuable businesses of coming decades will be built by entrepreneurs who seek to empower people rather than try to make them obsolete.
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
Antoinette Siu • Teen creators jumpstart careers by selling clothes online and getting brand sponsorships
Smash departmental silos by connecting teams with horizontally shared OKRs. Cross-functional
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
TAP INTO THE COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE OF THE BUSINESS CROWD.
David Mattin • Trend-Driven Innovation
Perhaps the founder had a unique experience that exposed her to the market problem in a way that provided unique insights into the solution for the problem.