Professor, Innovation & Entrepreneurial Leadership at Babson. #entrplship

Boston
Joined June 2009
Stop & think thrice every time you want to blurt out words like Paradigm Shift, Disruptive Innovation, etc. These are big ideas that capture some essential/eternal truths or describe complex processes. Yet they get bastardized & bu…lnkd.in/ecsUda5b lnkd.in/erHQWzn3
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Open v Closed Systems: All technologies go through this - VHS v Betamax, PC v Apple, USB v Firewire, Android v IOS, etc. How an early entry into a low-margin hi-vol charging stations biz gave Tesla an edge. While its genesis was in…lnkd.in/eVHpDuEV lnkd.in/ec5xHN3P
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Leading Change: Can start anywhere - Top, Bottom, Middle, Corner, Outside! Examples - Lean at Wyeth, Sweatshops @ Nike, Col. John Boyd at the Pentagon and many others. lnkd.in/eHeFiuBc
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Humans vs ChatGPT/AI. AI is powerful in Logic. So, being human becomes more important – Focus on Creativity & Emotion. AI is great at repeating things that have been done many times before. So, find non-repeating jobs. AI is powerf…lnkd.in/epaCdEfC lnkd.in/eyYzn4Wc
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Innovation in Downturns: Dupont's Neoprene & GM vs Ford after the Great Depression. Amex after the 2008 financial crisis. Staples vs Office Depot after the 2000 dot-com bust. #entrplship lnkd.in/e2h8f3Dm
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Leading Change: Vertical + Lateral Swaps - Leaders spending time in different roles (CEO doing customer service, finance doing HR, etc.) #entrplship lnkd.in/eypJeumK
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Capitalism at its best! How to screw the public through lack of transparency in pricing, effective lobbying & unnecessary middlemen PBMs. Prices went up 800% from 2007 to 2017, even though the first commercial insulin was developed nearly 100 years ago an…lnkd.in/eVYWryFD
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JBKassarjian RIP! Dear JB's Friends, I am absolutely distraught to tell you that our beloved JB passed away last evening in New Hampshire with his family around him. The greatest tribute to JB would be to keep his brilliance, his experiences, his insi…lnkd.in/eiY3FY2G
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IKEA's obsession with #customerintimacy & #operationalexcellence (constant cost cutting). "Our budget is the customer's wallet." Going back to the drawing board (rethinking) to help customers' budgets during inflationary times; as…lnkd.in/eDXMfAZz lnkd.in/eMJ9S--v
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Bust Bureaucracy via Customer Intimacy & Immediacy: Get growth-obsessed, cut lead times (#agile), kill committees, speed decisions, fire expensive consultants, axe layers of management, & empower lower-level employees! Andrea Orcel…lnkd.in/eNbWep6J lnkd.in/eZVpEK2P
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SpaceX, Twitter, Tesla: As startups, Musk gave each a 10% chance of success. Lessons from the journey thus far: make decisions & take action when things look bleak; inaction is worse than being wrong; course correct. #entrplship lnkd.in/ejtwp-Et
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