Faced with the choice of starting a company or joining a large corporation, Steve Jobs believed that it was ‘more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy’. But for innovators inside established companies, making a distinction between being a pirate and joining the navy is a fallacy. We have to figure out a way to become pirates in the navy!
In this podcast brought to you in partnership with the Brightline Initiative, Des Dearlove discusses Tendayi Viki and 1508’s new report, Innovation Made Tangible. Tendayi and 1508 maintain that in the last several years innovation has become the most important...
How do you help a company develop a 'startup' mindset that lasts even while they are doing their regular day-to-day work? How do you do strategy in an iterative way? How can you help successful companies worry about the future in spite of a comfortable present?
Tendayi Viki is an award winning author and corporate innovation expert. He holds a PhD in Psychology and an MBA. As Associate Partner at Strategyzer, Tendayi works with companies to develop their internal ecosystems so they can innovate for the...
When Steve Jobs said that it was “more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy”, he was reflecting the reality that large companies are much slower to respond to change than startups. This is the speed boat...
