“Products a start-up builds are really experiments…Learning about how to build a sustainable business is the outcome of those experiments [which follow] a three-step process: Build, measure, learn.” “[A startup is] … an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty.” ThreeProcessStepsConditionsProductsCreatingOrganizationExtremesExperimentsUncertaintyOutcomesSomething NewDedicatedCreating Something Author:Eric Ries
“Some of the power has shifted from companies to people. Using social media tools (blogs, wikis, tagging, etc.) more individuals are creating semi-spontaneous 'groundswells' of opinions to which companies and other institutions are realizing they must respond. From marketing to consumers organizations are being pulled into engaging with individuals.” PeopleIndividualSocialRealizingCompanyOpinionMediaCreatingToolsOrganizationInstitutionsMarketingSocial MediaConsumersEtcSpontaneousEngagingConnectingBlogsWikis Author:Charlene Li
“If school principals have given up on the important things and are focusing on discipline, they are creating a certain, diluted reality. In an organization that functions properly, discipline should be a marginal issue.” IfsShouldImportantRealitySchoolCertainGivenIssuesDisciplineCreatingOrganizationFunctionImportant ThingsPrincipalGiven UpSchool Principal Author:Itay Talgam
“Imagine connecting with the human spirit in each person in any situation at any time. Imagine interacting with others in a way that allows everyone's need to be equally valued. Imagine creating organizations and life-serving systems responsive to our needs and the needs of our environment.” WayNeedsHumansPersonsSpiritSituationEnvironmentImagineCreatingOrganizationServingHuman SpiritConnectingOur EnvironmentNonviolent CommunicationInteractingInteracting With Others Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg
“There is always a critical job to be done. There is a sales door to be opened, a credit line to be established, a new important employee to be found, or a business technique to be learned. The venture investor must always be on call to advise, to persuade, to dissuade, to encourage, but always to help build. Then venture capital becomes true creative capital - creating growth for the company and financial success for the investing organization” ImportantDoneHelpingJobsFoundGrowthLinesCompanyCreativeDoorsCreatingOrganizationInvestingFinancialCreditCriticalTechniqueEmployeeInvestorsVentureAdviseVenture CapitalFinancial Success Book:The First Venture Capitalist: Georges Doriot on Leadership, Capital, & Business Organization Source: The First Venture Capitalist: Georges Doriot on Leadership, Capital, & Business Organization
“The telephone operator has one of the biggest roles in creating your organization's image....indeed, many people may come into contact with no one except your operator.” PeopleMayRolesCreatingOrganizationContactTelephonesOperators Author:Guy Kawasaki
“Democracy is not brute numbers; it is a genuine union of true individuals...the essence of democracy is creating. The technique of democracy is group organization.” IndividualNumbersDemocracyGroupsCreatingEssenceOrganizationUnionsTechniqueGenuineBrutes Author:Mary Parker Follett
“Leadership is creating an environment in which people want to be part of the organization and not just work for the organization. Leadership creates an environment that makes people want to, rather than have to, do.” PeopleWantEnvironmentCreatingOrganization Author:Horst Schulze
“Providing clean, efficient solar/electric generators to industries such as oil companies, spanning from film and event production, construction, disaster relief, agriculture, forestry, and nonprofit organizations. We're literally helping green oil companies, helping them find ways to pollute less while creating jobs. When I look at the breadth of positive impact these technologies can have, I truly get excited. Imagine a generator where ZERO fuel is used!” WayLooksHelpingJobsFilmUsedCompanyTechnologyImagineEventsIndustryCreatingOrganizationGreenImpactCleanProductionsExcitedOilDisasterFuelReliefZeroConstructionEfficientElectricProvidingAgricultureBreadthPositive ImpactNonprofitsOil CompaniesGeneratorCreating JobsDisaster Relief Author:Ian Somerhalder
“You're not going to have the police force representing the black and brown community, if they've spent the last 30 years busting every son and daughter and father and mother for every piddling drug offense that they've ever done, thus creating a mistrust in the community. But at the same time, you should be able to talk about abuses of power, and you should be able to talk about police brutality and what, in some cases, is as far as I'm concerned, outright murder and outright loss of justice without the police organization targeting you in the way that they have done me.” IfsWayShouldYearsDoneAbleLastsMotherFatherForceBlackCommunityJusticeLossCasesSonDrugCreatingDaughterConcernedOrganizationAbuseMurderPoliceBrownOffensePolice BrutalityBrutalityRepresentingMistrustAbuse Of PowerSon And DaughterPolice ForceBusting Author:Quentin Tarantino
“Green is not just about renewable energy. It's also about creating a new direction for the whole economy. This requires government to step up, not step back, creating the kinds of mission-oriented public organizations that will enable us to tackle climate change - as ambitious as those that got us to the moon. It also requires the financial sector to be less short-term since we know that short-term finance has distorted incentives and directions in areas like biotechnology.” KnowsKindWholeGovernmentEnergyTermStepsEconomyMoonCreatingAreasOrganizationGreenClimateClimate ChangeFinancialMissionsFinanceAmbitiousIncentivesShort TermStep UpRenewable EnergyNew DirectionsBiotechnology Author:Mariana Mazzucato
“Any institution faces two basic choices if they hope to spark new ideas. One is to leverage the brains trust within their organization by creating a special event dedicated to new thinking. The other is to look outside themselves to stimulate solutions.” IfsThinkingLooksTwoIdeasFacesChoicesBrainSpecialEventsCreatingSolutionsOrganizationInstitutionsSparksDedicatedNew IdeasSpecial Events Author:Simon Mainwaring