Startups and America's Future

Recently I've seen several web articles promoting startups as the key to the future. Here's my startup thinking.

Knowledge and Technology

Inside Drucker's Brain

The most accessible guide to the essential ideas of "the inventor of modern management".

In late 2003, ninety-four-year-old Peter Drucker invited Jeffrey Krames to his home for an unprecedented day-long interview. He spoke candidly about his seminal management principles, his enormous body of work (thirty-eight books over six decades), and the leaders he had advised over the years (including Jack Welch).

Krames used the insights he gained that day to create "Inside Drucker's Brain"—a compact guide to the great man's wisdom. Krames had no intention of writing a biography, but rather a book that would showcase Drucker's most important ideas and strategies, and explain why they are just as useful today as they were decades ago

Inside Drucker's Brain

Barriers to Innovation

The first barrier is the general confusion over innovation and entrepreneurship. There are people who know something about it and people who sling the words around without the slightest investigation or understanding. They then use their "man on the street" assumptions in their thinking and decisions which have a high probability of failure.

The other main barriers are covered in Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Management, Revised Edition (search for the word stems "innovat" and then "entrepren")

 

If it says innovation it probably isn't

Ads that contain the words innovative or innovation are not likely to be either.

Real innovations don't need or want this language — they are a distraction.

Just show us what it is and what it will do for us. Remember when iPods or iPhones or iPads were new? Just show us the magic and let that sell it.

If it has been set up as a separate "entity" then the management believes it is an innovation otherwise it is probably hype.

Who innovates? Who is an entrepreneur?

See my innovation summary page. How does this compare with stuff you see in the news?

Amazon link: Innovation and Entrepreneurship