A look at a select few companies and a comparison of Opportunity mindset vs Results driven mindset of leadership teams. Jamie Dimon is a classic example of Results driven mindset. Larry Ellison is a classic example of Opportunity driven mindset. Both leaders have a leading edge of systems thinking. They seek answers…
Disciplined vs Systematic
Disciplined vs Systematic mindset of leaders in a select list of companies. A sample of 22,500+ leaders (titles include Director, President and/or Chief). No wrong or right answer. Each company needs different mindsets to operate in the environment they are in. Too much can serious impact performance. For example, too…
CXO priorities?
Things always change. It’s always been that way. The 1st telegraph was likely more shocking to people than anything Elon says today. Today’s environment seems to be more conceptual in ways. How does today’s news impact your brand, hiring and selling your products? Here are a few top issues I…
Why PMF is the secret superweapon of the 2020s?
By Akos Tolnai and Christopher Skinner Go to market strategy was a stronghold, captained by marketing. The more you could spend on marketing or, in general, customer acquisition, the steeper the growth curve would be. Or to put it this way: even a mediocre product could become a success with…
Customer desire versus viability and feasibility of your organization
This is a brief article describing customer desire vs viability and feasibility. Customer desires, they’re unmet needs can be described as somewhere between low and high and shown on the above y axis. The ability of your organization to build a viable and feasible product can be seen as either…
Ability versus motivation of the customer
I have been thinking about customers in terms of their motivation. You can connect that concept to their personality traits. One person’s personality might look at a ‘job to be done’ as very hard to accomplish while another sees the ‘job to be done’ as easy. Maybe, an example is…
Pathways to growth: you have a few choices
When you look at the pathways to building new capabilities, solving product-market fit, jobs-to-be-done and ultimately growing your business, there are a few different pathways. Often the pathway of the leader is to First create efficiencies, explore and discover new ideas and eventually build new capabilities. This is traditionally the…
Pick the right key metrics and go faster, better, and cheaper.
There’s a lot of talk about how to measure your business especially if you’re pursuing product-market fit. You might be a startup or a company trying to (re)build a product. But how do you know if you’re heading in the right direction? Where to start when it comes to measuring?…
Product-Market Fit and the use of data
Businesses, people and markets are always changing. As I read today, AirBnB has some struggles. What will they do to compensate for loss of revenue in late 2020? Do they just keep cutting costs or do they try to create a new business model? At this point, there’s no quick…
Why does historic data often fail to see the future?
Another way to describe it: Making predictions when data fails you. The really fast answer: when the rules are static and well described, the machine gets it. Example: IBM winning chess matches. When the rules change or even when the game changes, good luck. What do smart people do that…