Advice from Jeff Bezos via Ben Casnocha
I was organizing my Delicious bookmarks and found an old but good post by Ben Casnocha with notes from The Stanford Conference on Entrepreneurship in 2005. One of the headliners was Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos. A few of the points Bezos covered include:
* Don’t accept the status quo and learned helplessness. Instead, look for problems in everyday things or processes and innovate to find a better way.
* Reject either/or thinking.
* First identify a certain technology or a specific solution. Then, define a problem that can be solved by that technology.
* Instead of thinking about what will change in the future, think about what’s not going to change.
* Some people have innate skills that come easily to them and can’t be taught. However, you can teach people to have high standards.
Source:
http://ben.casnocha.com/2005/02/stanford_confer.html