“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
“As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you and your gang will ... dramatically up the odds of a WOW outcome!” IfsWayLooksStoriesProcessJourneyProjectsCreatingChiefsNarrativeOutcomesWowOddsGangYarn Author:Tom Peters
“I like to talk about the idea of "design without design," where... we're creating the conditions for the things that we want to see happen rather than trying to force a particular set of outcomes.” WantTryingIdeasHappensForceConditionsDesignParticularCreatingOutcomes Author:Toby Hemenway
“For me, comedy and drama are all the same thing. How the comedy ever even started in my life was that moments got uncomfortable and I felt uncertain of what the outcome was going to be, so I found a way to deflect what I was feeling, or what everyone else was feeling, by creating laughter.” WayMomentsFeelingsFoundFeltComedyDramaCreatingLaughterUncomfortableOutcomesThat MomentUncertain Author:Romany Malco
“Beliefs help us tap the richest resources deep within us, creating & directing these resources to support our desired outcome” HelpingBeliefSupportCreatingResourcesOutcomesDeep Within Author:Tony Robbins
“The management of creativity is more intimate. By that I mean that it deals with an individual's personal, psychological landscape. It deals with the way you create relationships. It deals with creating an atmosphere and environment that support the creative process. As a result, it is a management skill set that is inherently psychological and that encourages desired outcomes rather than demands those outcomes.” WayMeanIndividualProcessResultsDealsCreativitySupportCreativeEnvironmentSkillsDemandCreatingManagementPsychologicalLandscapeAtmosphereIntimateOutcomesCreative ProcessManagement Skills Author:John Kao