The Startup Success Podcast
This week Bob and Pat talk with well-respected Silicon Valley strategist Nilofer Merchant about her book, “The New How: Creating Business Solutions Through Collaborative Strategy”.
How can you build a business – large, small or micro – that can compete and succeed in a world where constant change is the norm? Nilofer walks us through the components of the new how, why so many large companies suffer from an air sandwich between goals and execution, murderboards and their uses, and how even the smallest company needs to take conscious charge of their business culture.
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Bob Walsh is on Twitter at http://twitter.com/bobwalsh or you can email him at bob.walsh@47hats.com.
Patrick Foley is on Twitter at http://twitter.com/patrickfoley or you can email him at patrick.foley@microsoft.com
URLs mentioned/relevant to this show:
- The New How: Creating Business Solutions Through Collaborative Strategy
- Video: Why Flat Wins
- Nilofer on Twitter
- Various presentations by Nilofer at Slideshare.net.
- Kill your Darlings at Forbes.com
The section discussing how a strong analytical toolset of a company doesn’t necessarily help with the innovation process (around 12:15 of the show) was a really useful insight.
Thanks for the great podcasts.