According to Adapt, “success comes through rapidly fixing our mistakes rather than getting things right first time.” To prove his point, Harford cites compelling examples innovation by trial-and-error from visionaries as varied as choreographer Twyla Tharp and US Forces Commander David Petraeus. I interviewed Harford over email to dig deeper into the counter-intuitive lessons of…
The time has come to write. I feel this on an almost cellular level. Why? Because I\’m sitting in my writing chair, wearing my writing glasses, chewing my writing gum. Now, I could sit in this chair, wear these glasses, and chew this gum while knitting tea cozies, juggling jelly beans, and husking corn (just…
You have 1440 minutes between right now and this time tomorrow. Only 1440 minutes. How will you use that time? One percent of that time is about 15 minutes. What, you ask, is so important about 15 minutes? It is a block of time that\’s small enough to make room for and large enough to…
When it comes to being successful, high achievers have a number of habits in common. But that doesn\’t mean you can\’t be right up there with them. Here are three qualities all successful people share and how you can make them your own: 1. Say \’no\’ to distraction. Every. Single. Time. Successful people make better…
As a label, the word “entrepreneur” really is fascinating. When my friends and I were starting up our first Virgin businesses in the early ‘70s, no one seemed to understand what we were doing. Some important people called us entrepreneurs, but they used the word in a derogatory way, hinting that we were adventurers, out…
Without any further ado and in their own words, here are some of the biggest mistakes and lessons learned from 13 successful entrepreneurs. 1. “We wasted $1,000,000 on a company that never launched” Hiten Shah, Co-Founder at KISSmetrics My co-founder and I spent $1,000,000 on a web hosting company that never launched. We were perfectionist so…
When Steve Blank appeared on the cover of Wired magazine 19 years ago, his company then, Rocket Science Games, was expected to revolutionize the videogame industry. At the time, Blank didn\’t let the skepticism of critics faze him. \”I thought I was a genius,\” he says. Three months later, when he called his mother to…