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Nine Innovation Articles from October & November 2024
Self-Sabotaging Innovation: The Art of Doing Dumb Shit – Matt Klein
- “In 1944, the CIA’s predecessor, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), published the Simple Sabotage Field Manual — a handbook designed to help ordinary citizens disrupt enemy operations through acts of sabotage. …fast forward 80 years and it’s as if today’s organizations have interpreted this guide’s section on corporate sabotage as a how-to manual for success.”
Leaked MrBeast Document: A Shining Example of Leadership – Robyn Bolton
- “What sets this document apart is its razor-sharp clarity and relentless focus on creativity. Unlike the vague platitudes that plague many corporate communications, job descriptions, and performance matrixes, this document clearly outlines expectations, success metrics, and the strategies and tactics to fuel continuous innovation. This clarity is transformative for people and organizations. When team members understand both the guardrails and the goals, they channel their creative energy into groundbreaking ideas rather than second-guessing their approach and worrying about repercussions.”
Jack Welch Was Wrong. Here’s Why Leaders Should Embrace Chaos – Elliott Parker
- “The systems used to execute the core business efficiently, at scale, and with careful consideration are applied to challenges of learning, not execution. Despite the best intentions of all involved, the innovation efforts fail. The intention to root out errors from the system ironically ensures eventual failure.”
The Silicon Valley Entrepreneurship Model Can be Toxic, Fortunately There are Other Models – Bill Aulet
- “Entrepreneurship is a mindset, skill set, and way of operating that should not be confined to only one journey. Every entrepreneurial journey is unique, embodies a variety of different species, which is a positive aspect to the process. We need to have more than one model for entrepreneurship. “
The World’s Most Innovative Country – The Economist
- “A ranking of 133 countries shows that the global innovation boom is stalling.” Check a few surprises on the list too.
The Importance of Business Models to Building Great Products – Ben Yoskovitz
- “It’s easy to think about a product myopically and focus entirely on features. With a growing trend towards
founder mode and the challenging of product management on a whole, the role of product manager is quickly reduced to “feature pusher.” Product management is more than that. I’d argue it’s almost everything (I’m biased, I’m a product person). Product managers cannot do their jobs without understanding the bigger picture. Shipping features is great, but it’s meaningless unless those features are connected to the core of the business.”
The Saboteurs That Threaten Innovation — And How to Handle Them – FirstRound
- “Leaders of existing organizations often focus on the success of their department or program rather than the overall good of the organization. And at times there are perverse incentives as some individuals are aligned with the interests of incumbent vendors rather than the overall good of the company or government agency.”
22 Pixar Rules of Storytelling – Tim Ferris
- “Pixar story artist Emma Coats has tweeted a series of “story basics” over the past month and a half — guidelines that she learned from her more senior colleagues on how to create appealing stories.”
Research: How Gen AI Is Already Impacting the Labor Market – HBR
- “We find that the introduction of ChatGPT and image-generating tools led to nearly immediate decreases in posts for online gig workers across job types, but particularly for automation-prone jobs. After the introduction of ChatGPT, there was a 21% decrease in the weekly number of posts in automation-prone jobs compared to manual-intensive jobs. Writing jobs were affected the most (30.37% decrease), followed by software, app, and web development (20.62%) and engineering (10.42%).”
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