I was in Boston and stopped by the Harvard Business Review for their IdeaCast podcast. I shared my current thinking about innovation in companies and government agencies. The interviewer, Curt Nickisch was great and managed to get me to summarize several years of learning in one podcast. He even got me to tell my Steve Jobs interview story.
It’s worth a listen.
Listen to the entire interview here:
Or listen to just parts of the interview:3:29 Entrepreneurs make their own luck4:35 The difference between an idea and an entrepreneur5:18 Why entrepreneurship thrived in Silicon Valley7:10 The pay-it-forward culture7:53 Failure as part of the process9:32 When I was more wrong than anyone on earth11:20 Steve Jobs on Customer Development12:38 The first time I did customer discovery14:49 Engineers built products for themselves and the “next bench”15:27 Why MBA’s avoided Silicon Valley16:01 20th century investors were not entrepreneurs16:45 Startups are not smaller versions of large companies18:18 We needed a management stack for innovation19:17 HBR and the Lean Startup and corporations20:09 Why Lean fails in corporations20:45 Startups can do anything, companies can only do what’s legal22:0o The team22:23 Rewards23:00 What will drive continuous corporate innovation?24:01 Innovation Theater24:39 Innovation at speed25:27 You adapt, or you adopt, or you die
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