Posts tagged business
Mike Hines :: We Want Faster Horses (On Innovation)
7July 26, 2010
While drafting this post I happened across an anonymous quote and it struck me as relevant. If Henry Ford had asked his customers what they needed they would have said faster horses.
History confirms that Mr. Ford was not ignoring his customers, simply listening better than most with vision firmly fixed on the horizon. A paradigm shift in the making. [ . . . ]
Jeff Arvin :: It was Twenty Years Ago Today (An Anniversary)
5June 21, 2010
And I know change is a topic that'll make your eyes roll into the back of your head. I've seen it. I've done it. Reams of former forests have been dedicated to the topic (remember that awful book Who Moved my Cheese?). Cliché though it may be, change is inevitable and we all have to deal with it. If any further proof is required, I started timber framing in my late 20's, and now, in my mid-50's, the evidence of change is dramatic. Along with the obvious physical changes come changes in circumstance typical of maturing people and therefore of maturing companies. So you gotta change and the ability to do so is the key to longevity. [ . . . ]
