If you want to be a big -
ideas person at work, suit up.
The editor of Road & Track asserted that front - wheel drive, as well as a transverse mid-engined configuration, were among «various mechanical layouts... tossed around by
the idea people at AMC,» adding that «it's unlikely they ever had much hope of being able to produce anything other than their traditional front engine and rear drive, using components already in production.»
That's
the idea the people at Hyperkin had too.
Not exact matches
And with good reason; millions of entrepreneurs and businesspeople have embraced the
idea that carving out a slice of an existing market can certainly be effective, but finding new opportunities — finding blue oceans — is even better, since those gains don't have to come
at the expense of other businesses or other
people.
I really loved the
idea of being able to make something during the day, because I was such a night owl
at the time, and have
people watch it
at their convenience, in the comfort of their own home.
So when we looked
at the model, we got excited about the
idea of what we call «incidental insurance»: Using tech to seamlessly integrate insurance within a handful of moments when it's naturally necessary
people to think about insurance.
Adam Alter: «Nomophobia» is a new word that's being coined to describe no mobile phobia, and it's the
idea that a lot of us, in thinking about not having our phones, experience something like a phobia, and this is supposed to describe hundreds of millions of
people today, and I'm sure that number is growing
at the moment.
Some, like getting away from your screen and out into the real world to see
people in the flesh, are relatively obvious, but
at least one is a clever
idea you've probably never considered before.
At my company, we're firm believers that the
person who's been here the longest doesn't necessarily have the best
idea.
There's a great deal to be gleaned from
people who have actually done what you're hoping to do rather than from newbies who are inventing their «careers» as they roll along, hoping
at the same time to get their businesses built and scaled before they run out of time, cheap money or good
ideas.
It also set me on the path of really understanding and fully appreciating the
idea of trans - disciplinary work, that you need to have different
people at the table coming up with solutions.
But if you invest with the
idea that rates will never rise again, or
at least not for decades, then a lot of the tried - and - true investing rules that
people have been following suddenly change.
So again, this
idea of consolidation was more about looking
at history, trying to understand how markets trade, and the sense that there's probably more wage inflation than
people perceive.
It's also detrimental to doing that rumination that's needed for
ideas to percolate and gestate and allow a
person to arrive
at an «aha» moment.»
It is also a good
idea when establishing your business partnership that ownership is divided
at least
at 51 % for one
person and 49 % for the other.
On the other side are the
people who hate Apple and everything it stands for, such as the
idea of closed products created behind a veil of secrecy that are usually sold
at a premium.
People laughed
at the
idea of GPS in the 1970s.
At InList, we've seen the value this approach can deliver: We often get our best product
ideas from our concierges — the
people listening to our customers.
«A lot of
people get discouraged about meditation because they like the
idea of it, but then feel like they're «failing»
at it because they just come face to face with the quality of distraction,» says Arden Pennell, Business Insider's program director.
Susan Cain, TED speaker and author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, cites research conducted by Adam Grant
at the Wharton School who found that introverted leaders often get better results, compared with extroverts, because the latter can unwittingly squelch creativity by not giving up the reins and letting
people run with their own
ideas.
«A lot of
people have... told us that what it helped them to do is think about their role in the group so that they went in with
at least a few
ideas of how they would orient themselves to the group,» says Guido.
The question is if
people buy into the
idea that (1) smartphones really do harm their ability to take in the world (or,
at least, are more «harmful» than «entertaining»), and (2) that they don't have the willpower to keep their noses out of their notifications, and thus need a phone that is designed to preempt most apps altogether.
There are plenty of
people who buy into
ideas like radical transparency and complete information sharing or participatory management
at all levels.
The
idea of Zenefits came from SigFig, which
at its height had about 30 employees, too small to hire an HR
person.
When
people ask me what my initial marketing was to get Buffer started, the truth I have to share is that my marketing consisted of sharing the
idea with the 1,700 Twitter followers I had
at the time.
«
At the heart of this is the
idea that
people of all kinds care about status and it effects the decisions they make,» says Savor.
For writers and professional speakers like me, this means that if
people are not disagreeing with you, walking out of your events, challenging your articles and
ideas, you are playing too safe and not working
at the edge.
It's easy to discriminate against the minority cobbler down the street by traveling a few extra blocks to buy from «your own kind»; it's much harder to act out your racist biases when buying shoes
at a big department store because, well, you have no
idea what colour or sex or sexual orientation of the
person who made those shoes is.
«Many great
ideas have been lost because the
people who had them could not stand being laughed
at.»
I guarantee they're incredibly good
at selling themselves, selling their
ideas — in short, they're incredibly good
at persuading other
people.
If you're intrigued by the
idea of working on applications that millions of
people could potentially use, then you'll want to take a look
at the growing group of software engineers who are researching, designing, evaluating, integrating and maintaining software applications, technical environments, operating systems (you can thank these guys for all those Apple iOS updates), embedded software, information warehouses and telecommunications software in both the private and public sectors.
And we now have really good
people at the company focused on this, so our ability to sniff out in diligence a promising
idea or approach versus companies that aren't bringing a lot of value to the table is pretty good.
It's not difficult to find numerous examples of now - famous business
people whose friends and family scoffed
at their
ideas that seemed crazily far - fetched, but were just what the marketplace needed.
When the co-founder of California - based Pacific Investment Management Co. (PIMCO) isn't sitting in the middle of a 70 -
person trading room or staring
at a Bloomberg machine, he's doing yoga
at a health club across the street, thinking of his best
ideas.
Still, passengers and regulators would have to become comfortable with the
idea of nobody sitting in the cockpit, which would be a dramatic change from the current rules for much of the world, which require
at least two
people in the cockpit
at all times.
As a student
at the University of California, Berkeley, Fiance, who graduated in 2014 and now works for a startup, says that some of his best
ideas came from constantly being willing to meet new
people and attend social events.
Even as Apple got
people used to the
idea of having a supercomputer in their pocket, it significantly changed how businesses interact with consumers around the world, says Brian Blau, research director for consumer technology and markets
at research firm Gartner.
A. I had no plan
at all, seriously, just an
idea, that friends said
people would pay for.
Simply put, the Rule of One is this: whenever you find yourself believing or acting as though any «one» thing,
person,
idea, time, formula, or form of value is all - important, it's the surest sign that you are missing the bigger picture and, along with it, the threat or opportunity
at your doorstep.
A decorated Harvard economics instructor, a former White House policy adviser, and the author of bestsellers like Market Shock and New
Ideas from Dead Economists, Buchholz found himself surrounded by
people he deemed to be seeking tawdry material gain
at the expense of real quality of life.
When she picked up her badge
at the beginning of IO, the
person checking her in certainly had no
idea.
According to Teresa Amabile, director of research
at Harvard, creativity is really driven by four separate components: domain expertise, a defined creativity methodology,
people willing to engage and company acceptance of new
ideas.
«There were several
people high up
at Equinox whose parents had Alzheimer's,» she explained, which made them amenable to the
idea, despite being a gym.
It's more than often the direction you're pointed if you have an
idea and talk to any old - school business
person, corporate lifer or institutional banker —
at least when it comes to getting your startup
idea off the ground.
Some researchers suggest that gossip not only gives
people a better
idea of what's going on around them in their social circles and
at work, but also helps
people feel more involved in events.
«No matter how open you are as a manager, our research shows, many of your
people are more likely to keep mum than to question initiatives or suggest new
ideas at work,» wrote James Detert of Cornell and Ethan Burris of University of Texas as Austin on HBR recently.
Consumers today might experience a gut - level cringe
at the
idea of an artificial intelligence that can recognize and analyze their Instagram photos, but companies like Google and thought leaders like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are investing heavily in it, making huge bets that
people will accept it someday.
The central
idea behind Sweden's six - hour work day is to encourage
people to put in a focused six hours of work during the day, get their tasks done, and leave
at a reasonable hour in order to enjoy their evening.
If
people feel that the CEO is taking pot shots
at their
ideas, they'll turn into resentful sheep rather than enthusiastic problem solvers.
This gets
at part of the reason why I believe so much in the power of everyday
people to bring their
ideas to market.