The right way to look at it is to say ‘How does innovation happen and how do very large systems like the healthcare system change?’
Most of the time change comes from the outside. Not the inside where there are too many vested interests, too many people with very good intentions who have too much experience to be unbiased,” Khosla said at the time. “They are not naive enough to ask naive questions. The answers have changed because of the circumstances — because of technology. Healthcare innovation will be consumer-driven not doctor-driven. It will be driven by devices that power the consumer to have better data about themselves.” Khosla was quick to point out that technology is an important component but not the only one: “It is necessary but not sufficient.

Khosla Ventures

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Jim Rohn

-via SwissMiss.com

In The Age Of The Customer
Global outsourcing erodes economies of scale.
Online channels render distribution strength impotent.
Customer word of mouth undoes huge brand investments.
Networked consumers and entrepreneurs undermine copyrights and patents.

via William Band (Forrester).

If you care about your product, you should care just as much about how you describe it.

Jason from 37Signals http://www.inc.com/magazine/20100501/why-is-business-writing-so-awful.html

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Duncan Penn

Reason dreams of an empire of knowledge, a mansion of the mind. Yet sometimes we end up living in a hovel by its side. Reason has shown us our capacity for power, both to create and to destroy. Yet how we use that power rests on our deeper capacities which lie beyond the reach of reason, beyond our traditions and culture, stretching far back into the depths of the evolutionary process that created our species, a process that ultimately asserts the power of life over death. And, ironically, even death, as part of the process of life, asserts that power. That is how we have come into being and now find ourselves committed to the unrelenting struggle of ordinary human existence.

We surely stand at the threshold of a great adventure of the human spirit—a new synthesis of knowledge, a potential integration of art and science, a deeper grasp of human psychology, a deepening of the symbolic representations of our existence and feelings as given in religion and culture, the formation of an international order based on cooperation and nonviolent competition. It seems not too much to hope for these things.

The future, as always, belongs to the dreamers.

Heinz R Pagels

bit by bit customers tore apart our seemingly brilliant strategy