Intel’s Andy Grove is a Silicon Valley legend, Time‘s Man of the Year (1997), and the subject of a magisterial biography by Harvard Business School historian Richard Tedlow. He’s also one of the world’s toughest-minded thinkers about competition and innovation, the kind of boss who writes books with titles like Only the Paranoid Survive. Which … Continue reading “MEMO TO ANDY GROVE: BIG COMPANIES AREN’T DISRUPTORS”
Author: William C. Taylor
William C. Taylor is an agenda-setting thinker, writer, and entrepreneur. His new book, Mavericks at Work, has been a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, and was named a "Best Business Book of 2006" by The Economist, the Financial Times, and Amazon.com. As cofounder and founding editor of Fast Company, he launched a magazine that earned a passionate following among executives and entrepreneurs around the world and won two coveted National Magazine Awards. His management blog, "Game Changer," appears weekly on HarvardBusiness Online, and his column, "Bill Taylor on Big Ideas," runs in London’s Guardian newspaper. He is a member of the Xconomy board of directors.
Why Is It So Hard For Innovators to Keep It Simple?
I’m just back from Providence, Rhode Island, and a stimulating two days co-hosting BIF-3, the third annual summit of the Business Innovation Factory. Presenter after presenter, from all walks of life, told remarkable stories about reinventing a police department, rethinking national security, even redesigning the lowly nail, to make it more resistant to hurricanes. If … Continue reading “Why Is It So Hard For Innovators to Keep It Simple?”