Paul Natland – Medium

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·Sep 21, 2016

How a bias towards “yes” allows Amazon to pursue new ideas.

The challenge most organizations face is not generating new ideas, it’s being able to develop, test and implement those ideas quickly. And there is no greater threat to exploring new ideas than the dreaded “Institutional No”. The “Institutional No” is the realization that most organizations default to “no” when contemplating…

Amazon

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Amazon

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Sep 6, 2016

Start acting like a technology company.

If you don’t think that you’re a technology company, bad things are probably about to happen to your business — like Netflix disrupting Blockbuster bad. You’ll never see disruption coming. Worse yet, you wont be expecting it. Here is a really scary statistic: only 72% of Fortune 500 CEOs said…

Healthcare

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Healthcare

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·Jul 28, 2016

What can we learn from Dollar Shave Club’s billion dollar acquisition?

Last week Unilever announced it would be paying $1 billion to acquire Dollar Shave Club, the edgy startup that pioneered direct-to-consumer shaving subscriptions for as little as $3 per month. Dollar Shave Club launched in 2012 with a viral hit video that lead to 12,000 new orders in the first…

Innovation

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Innovation

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