It was amazing
to read the articles. I learned so much about gratitude with President Monson.
We must be grateful for small things and to great people in our lives, such as
our MOM, Father, Teachers, Friends, and to our Country. We learn so much with
them in the course of our lives. It is a process to our niceness.
I liked also one quote of Louis
Pasteur that says “Chance favors only the prepared mind.” We must prepare our
minds to recognize and create new ideas and then to shape them into
opportunities.
Opportunity recognition and
shaping can be thought of as comprising three distinct activities:
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Sensing or perceiving an unmet market need, or a new technology or
capability that could meet a need that has yet to be identified.
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Discovering the fit between market needs and the capabilities and
resources available to the entrepreneur
·
Creating a product, service, or a hybrid product/service “solution” that
can be delivered to a specific market to address a specific need while
generating value for all stakeholders.
Motivation refers both to
internal passion and interests and to external rewards.
Creative thinking skills include
the ways people approach and solve problems and put existing ideas together in
new combinations.
Five Discovery Skills that
Distinguish Great Innovators:
Associating; Questioning; Observing;
Networking; Experimenting.
“First and foremost, innovators count on a cognitive
skill that we call "associational thinking" or simply "associating." Associating happens
as the brain tries to synthesize and make sense of novel inputs. It helps
innovators discover new directions by making connections across seemingly
unrelated questions, problems, or ideas. Innovative breakthroughs often happen
at the intersection of diverse disciplines and fields…
Questioning. Innovators are consummate questioners who show a passion for inquiry.
Their queries frequently challenge the status quo, just as [Apple Inc.
co-founder Steve] Jobs did when he asked, "Why does a computer need a
fan?" They love to ask, "If we tried this, what would happen?"
Innovators, like Jobs, ask questions to understand how things really are today,
why they are that way, and how they might be changed or disrupted.
Collectively, their questions provoke new insights, connections, possibilities,
and directions. We found that innovators consistently demonstrate a high Q/A
ratio, where questions (Q) not only outnumber answers (A) in a typical
conversation, but are valued at least as highly as good answers.
Observing. Innovators are also intense observers. They carefully watch the world
around them—including customers, products, services, technologies, and
companies—and the observations help them gain insights into and ideas for new
ways of doing things. Jobs's observation trip to Xerox PARC provided the germ
of insight that was the catalyst for both the Macintosh's innovative operating
system and mouse, and Apple's current OSX operating system.
Networking. Innovators spend a lot of time and energy finding and testing ideas
through a diverse network of individuals who vary wildly in their backgrounds
and perspectives. Rather than simply doing social networking or networking for
resources, they actively search for new ideas by talking to people who may
offer a radically different view of things. For example, Jobs talked with an
Apple Fellow named Alan Kay, who told him to "go visit these crazy guys up
in San Rafael, California." The crazy guys were Ed Catmull and Alvy Ray,
who headed up a small computer graphics operation called Industrial Light &
Magic (the group created special effects for George Lucas's movies). Fascinated
by their operation, Jobs bought Industrial Light & Magic for $10 million,
renamed it Pixar, and eventually took it public for $1 billion. Had he never
chatted with Kay, he would never have wound up purchasing Pixar, and the world
might never have thrilled to wonderful animated films like Toy Story,WALL-E, and Up.
Experimenting. Finally, innovators are constantly trying out new experiences and
piloting new ideas. Experimenters unceasingly explore the world intellectually
and experientially, holding convictions at bay and testing hypotheses along the
way. They visit new places, try new things, seek new information, and
experiment to learn new things. Jobs, for example, has tried new experiences
all his life—from meditation and living in an ashram in India to dropping in on
a calligraphy class at Reed College. All these varied experiences would later
trigger ideas for innovations at Apple Computer. Collectively, these discovery
skills—the cognitive skill of associating and the behavioral skills of
questioning, observing, networking, and experimenting—constitute what we call
the innovator's DNA, or the code for generating innovative business ideas.
The essence of Entrepreneurship
is the pursuit of opportunities. Entrepreneurs must evaluate each opportunity
in the context of their current situations and life plans.
The importance to Business
Analysis: “Realness” of the opportunity; The Durability of the opportunity;
Marshalling resources; managing the venture; Harvesting the venture
The personal analysis: Consider
goals and values in our path; Capabilities and how to improve and put in
action; Lifestyle, it is a passion; Relationships to support ourselves.
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