It's better for a CEO to describe success than to prescribe the exact methods employees must use to achieve it. This is done, says Chegg CEO Dan Rosensweig, by establishing a company vision and sharing it often with employees. He advises to not think in terms of business models, but rather to reframe the questions to ensure your company is thinking big enough. Then, hire people willing to be part of a team that will be integral to this vision.
Leading a Young Team to Success
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What Will You Create in White Space?
Believing that we are exiting the "dark ages of computing," investor and entrepreneur John Lilly issues a challenge to technology entrepreneurs in this era of chaos: What will you create in the white space of opportunity that lies ahead?
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The Soft Skills Matter
The skills that matter most when you move up in an organization are not actually taught in schools, says GE healthmagination CEO Sue Siegel. Here Siegel describes why the soft skills of working with and sharing credit with others, and being able to express empathy, are critical to personal and professional success.
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Invest in What You Know
Enterprise business buyers fundamentally demand choice, says Cindy Padnos, managing partner of Illuminate Ventures. According to Padnos, this insight, along with thorough data, support her firm's passion for focusing on investments in enterprise software and cloud computing, instead of in the consumer internet space.
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Qualitative in Contrast to Quantitative
Palantir Co-Founder Stephen Cohen articulates how to approach a deeper understanding between knowledge and data that is quantitative versus qualitative in nature. Recognizing the depth and subtlety of the qualitative domain, in contrast to what is precisely definable, says Cohen, provides scientists and entrepreneurs with a new and valuable perspective on solving problems.
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Challenge of Scaling Culture
Skybox Imaging Co-Founder Ching-Yu Hu eloquently talks about the challenges of trying to scale culture in a growing organization. Hu also touches on how the company aims to bring a Silicon Valley, agile approach to satellite development that differs from traditional aerospace companies.
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Transforming Customers and Businesses
Publisher and entrepreneur Tim O'Reilly offers insights and inspirations that have influenced the successful growth of his business. O'Reilly also challenges companies to think in terms of the kinds of transformations and results they can help customers achieve.
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Unlock Creativity with Motivation and Experimentation
Stanford Prof. Tina Seelig discusses how motivation and experimentation are essential for creativity. She also shows how true problem-solvers and entrepreneurs utilize whatever is within reach to overcome obstacles, and then quickly prototype, rather than let challenges stand in the way of a solution.
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Don’t Default to Startup
William Marshall, co-founder and CEO of Planet Labs, says that starting a business should not be the first response to every pain point in the market, but decided only after it becomes clear that there is no other solution. Marshall also describes how passion and a breakthrough idea, not business skills or an MBA, are central to entrepreneurship.
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Take Action to Find Ideas
Entrepreneur and investor Chinedu Echeruo urges aspiring entrepreneurs to not look for ideas, but to discover new ideas through activity and action. Rather than seeing creativity as an abstract concept, Echeruo argues that it be used as a tool to unleash value in the world.
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The Four Key Capacities to Successfully Engage Employees in the Innovation Process
In this IM Channel One webinar authors Jamie Notter and Maddie Grant share research from their latest book, When Millennials Take Over: Preparing for the Ridiculously Optimistic Future of Business, which identifies the four key capacities that must be developed inside organizations in order to successfully engage employees in the innovation process.
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Innovation Fueled by Experimentation
Scott Cook, co-founder of Intuit and chair of its executive committee, talks about how a company that encourages experimentation will be guided by the best outcomes, as opposed to the whims of those with the most power and seniority. A leader's role, Cook says, is to define the vision, set up a system of experimentation and savor the surprises.
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Innovation Challenge Design and Management for the Crowd
In this Roundtable Discussion we explore the leading benefits, challenges and techniques for engaging public crowds. Using key success stories we examine the extent to which we can overcome key pain points and harness the general public to support innovation.
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How Your Organization Can Cash-In on the Latest Trends in Innovation
Innovation is such a hot topic of discussion that it can be difficult to determine the next initiatives to undertake to grow the maturity of your innovation program. In this enlightening webinar on November 12, 2014 we highlighted several innovation trends to consider implementing today for measurable results tomorrow.
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How to Make Innovations Business Relevant
Innovations should clearly contribute to growth, optimization and protection of the business. However, CEOs often challenge innovations already at the beginning of respective discussions and huge amounts of ideas get lost, together with prospective business benefits. In this IM Channel One Roundtable Discussion we introduced EY’s way of utilizing innovation management to address the three most relevant board room challenges: top-line growth, bottom-line growth and business resilience.
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Captivating your Open Innovation Crowd
In this IM Channel One Roundtable Discussion, Dr. Matt Chapman, Head of Innovation Services at Mindjet, discusses best practices and approaches for developing an effective and engaging platform for driving new ideas and value through open innovation. Learn from industry leaders such as Siemens and Citi Bank, about how to create engaging experiences, to manage IP issues and how to harness your results.
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Best Practices for Growing into the Chief Innovation Officer Role
In this IM Channel One Roundtable Discussion the expert panel discusses the challenges of being a Chief Innovation Officer and provide insights to the different leadership styles and how they can be mastered and blended for maximum effect and ROI.
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Misconceptions About Culture
Dharmesh Shah, co-founder and CTO at HubSpot, lists some of the most common excuses early-stage companies give when asked why conscious effort isn't put into developing culture. Entrepreneurs often point to office parties and perks, or the supposed importance of their mission as their startup's culture. They also claim culture grows organically, or that they just don't have time, Shah says.
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Entrepreneurship and Silicon Valley
Stanford University President John Hennessy defines entrepreneurship as transforming an idea into something real that can have wide impact, not just starting a business. In conversation with Tina Seelig, professor of the practice in Stanford's Department of Management Science & Engineering, Hennessy also discusses some of the essential ingredients in Silicon Valley's "secret sauce."
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Recognizing Skills and Weaknesses
Lands' End CEO Federica Marchionni discusses the importance of recognizing weaknesses as opportunities for growth. She uses the clothing company's push to open a 9,000-square-foot flagship store in New York City in just six weeks as an example of an opportunity for her company to prove that it could be quick and nimble under intense pressure.
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