- Achievement can either come from conformity or originality
- Firefox and Chrome users tend to stay longer perform better, and miss less work than IE our Safari
- What made the difference is how you get the browser
- Disadvantaged groups tend to be more entrenched in the state quo
- (It is harder to let go of the familiar when you have a lot to lose relative to what you have)
- We justify the default
- Practice makes perfect but nothing original
- Achievement motivation crowds out originality
- Originality it’s not about taking big risks
- We tend to manage risk as a portfolio, so risky in one place and stable in all other places
- The difficulty with originals is in selecting winners not in generating ideas
- Great ideas are a numbers game (aim for 25)
- Peer evaluation is best
- Domain experience and intuition go together
- Passion is in the heart, not the sleeves
- The way success was achieved matters (execution) more than the idea itself
- Sometimes it is better to embrace the establishment to change it from the inside
- When presenting great ideas, remember that you are living with the ideas in your head while everyone else is hearing them for the first time
- Short, mixed presentations are best for warming people up to a new idea
- We do better at remembering open tasks than completed tasks
- Stopping mid-way through the project is the best time to discuss how to proceed with it
- Percolate the ideas!
- Settlers tend to outlast pioneers
- Pioneers tend to overextend
- Get in when the market cools
- Moving first is a tactics not a goal
- Zero to start
- Experimental approaches enable creative longevity
- Horizontal hostility is common and deadly
- Similarities are actually bad for inter group alliances
- Pull back on radicalism at first
- Frenemies and ambivalent relationships are literally more exhausting than enemies
- It is better to try to convert enemies than it is to continue to placate frenemies
- Start with novelty but add a dose of familiarity
- “The point is to push the envelope not to tear it.”
- Later-born children tend to take more risks including in creativity
- Calculation of rationality vs appropriateness
- Praise the person in moral domains but action in skill domains
- Phrase as nouns instead of verbs
- Commitment culture is good for launching but grow slower and struggle to evolve
- Shifting blueprints later is difficult
- Make dissent a core commitment
- Dissent with respect to foster better ideas
- Cohesion is not the problem in groupthink; overconfidence and reputational concerns are
- Pretend or assigned dissent is not enough, find someone who believes it
- “I am excited” is more productive than “I am scared”
- Lean into the energy of the fear
- Leaders should present the vision and have users endorse it
- Show the problems with the status quo then show what could be
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