Podcast: Career advice for the creative/innovation economy
Segment 1: Career advice for the creative/innovation economy
- Find mentors: Look for different mentor/apprenticeships over your career to gain different skills/perspecive.
- Find and feed your passion: With passion, your sucess is all but gaurenteed
- Change jobs/change industries: Don't get stuck in the same role. Change roles and expand your experience and perspective.
- Constant Learning: Learn something new -- outside your industry.
- Family: Recognize that your success is a team (family team) sport
- Friends/Networks: Help other in your network before you ask them to help you. Pay it forward
Segment 2: Killer Questions
Create killer questions beyond the normal product and services innovation. The other possible areas of innovations include:
- Geography
- Industry Structure
- Value Delivery System
- New Competitive Arena
- Existing products to new customers
- New products to existing customers
Segment 3: Closing Thought
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed 26 times. I've failed over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed." Michael Jordan
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Comments
This MJ quote can also be a good lead-in to another discussion: Why executive management must avoid fostering a corporate culture that discourages failures at all costs. In such a culture, where the climb up the corporate ladder mostly depends on your peers making mistakes,
you see many "safe innovations" and no "killer innovations" because the culture discourages risk taking. On the other hand, I see leading companies willing to overlook failures by its innovators if it leads to a successful product based on what was learned in the initial failure. Toyota and Honda hybrid car programs are examples of the latter.
Posted by: Ich Sugioka | April 23, 2007 11:05 AM
Another great and motivational podcast for creative minded people. Thanks Phil.
I have herd that MJ quote before and it is a really good one. It does put in perspective that we only learn and succeed through our failures.
Posted by: Nelson de Witt | April 24, 2007 02:52 PM
I got a good shot in the arm from your podcast. Your interview piece (5 questions) in the Mercury News 4/29, is a jewel.
I would like to hear more about services innovation and
its extra associated barriers--infrastructure components & interfaces to be packaged for market acceptance.
Posted by: Steve Yang | April 29, 2007 02:26 PM