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Good ideas are hard to find. And even the best ideas face an uncertain path to real-world success.
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When a risky idea succeeds… the payoff is fantastic. But it’s the failures that, while painful, provide the greatest return on investment.
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Don’t go for the small win, or the nice-to-have project, because people won’t bring in their best efforts.
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When our new ideas fail, it’s usually because we were overconfident about how well customers would understand and how much they would care.
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…with the right team in place, unexpected solutions will appear.
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Every meeting, email, and phone call fragments attention and prevents real work from getting done.
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By getting the right people together, structuring the activities, and eliminating distraction… it’s possible to make rapid progress while working a reasonable schedule.
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…meaningful work, especially the kind of creative effort needed to solve big problems, requires long, uninterrupted blocks of time.
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Five days provide enough urgency to sharpen focus and cut out useless debate, but enough breathing room to build and test a prototype without working to exhaustion.
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If you’re looking at a screen, you’re not paying attention to what’s going on in the room, so you won’t be able to help the team.
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