[Dialogue] re changing beliefs - about companies Let's look for innovators...

[steve har]

it doesn't seem so interesting anymore to talk about companies without
taking about what is worth innovating, for example pro and dis-establishment
positions re Coke doesn't water my garden much these days.


It's a lot of heat and not much light unless you happen to be a stockholder,
IMHO.


What does water my garden? Innovations, People making innovations making it
different and doing doing it now. We used to say in LENS: Action removes the
doubt that theory cannot solve.


Some examples


Apple CEO Steve Jobs is among the greatest innovators of our time. And yet
his genius for understanding business is rarely explained in any public way.
Rarer still is to hear the advice he would give to the CEO of another hugely
successful company: Nike. But that's exactly what you'll learn from this
video, in which Nike president and CEO Mark Parker tells about the advice
that Jobs gave him shortly after the release of the Nike+ product line. It's
a simple bit of wisdom that any entrepreneur can relate to: "Get rid of the
crappy stuff."

Easy to say, hard to do.

"I expected a little laugh," Parker says of the exchange. "But there was a
pause and no laugh at the end."


Git rid of the crappy stuff please CEOs. Sooner or later they will figure it
out. I think Apple just beat Exxon in market cap. Bill Gates if off making
good stuff happen.


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and..


Social Entrepreneurs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk5LI_WcosQ


Prahalad's idea of BoP [Bottom of the Pyramid] Innovation

http://www.wri.org/stories/2009/03/video-prahalad-development-through-enterprise


Female Entrepreneurs

http://www.fastcompany.com/1769303/selling-lamps-door-to-door-in-africa-powers-solar-sisters-female-entrepreneurs


d.light company

http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/04/0403_social_entrepreneurs/8.htm


How about finding the best dozen damn social social entrepreneurs,
foundations like Ashoka, companies like d.light. Real thinkers like Prahalad
and EF Schumacher and putting some water there.


I want to see and get behind the next generation of innovators and dreamers
and trouble makers. There is enough attack and defend politics going on in
the US of A already.  When I talked to the Peace Corps guy here in Costa
Rica, they like small companies, innovation, finding and meeting needs. Coca
Cola is dong fine here. They don't need nothin either my help or my
cynicism.


The guy who invented the solar lantern at d.light company was a peace corps
volunteer in Africa and got tired of kerosene lamp fires. He went to a
design class for the bottom of the pyramid by chance at Stanford University.
The challenge was to design a real product for the poorest of the poor. Now
there is a small factory in India with a run rate of about 10M building and
selling solar lamps to villages. BTW 10M is about the size of a decent Big
Mac stand, or was, I believe.


Nostalgia, either pro or con isn't what it used to be. I think that is or
should have been a quote for M. Rivera if you get my drift.


I like Gilles's dreams about a global Architects Guild making dreams happen
just because.. they can dream.


I hope ICA-USA 2012-2025 is about finding and working with innovators
anywhere we can find them. I don't want to argue about Coke anymore, do you,
really?





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Steve Harrington
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