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...collapse the distance between the person that can see the customer's needs and the person at the decision-making level? A person in a blue shirt in a store probably has the best single insight as to what your needs are. How do we as a company follow his leadership, not mine? I've been around for 35 years. I could take you through anything we do today that we take for granted and all of it came from some individual-usually a misunderstood angry individual-who was sitting there saying 'why wont you do this?' and was having...
...make it easy. You need to be fighting for that idea as opposed to just having it accepted. That process of being misunderstood helps you figure out how to communicate it in a way that other people can hear. And you need the passion to follow the idea up. So the last thing I'd want to do is build an enterprise that just made it easy to have ideas. It needs that friction, but not so much that it gets smothered...
Mike Gering, CEO of the start-up Global Solar, picks his way along his factory floor, tracing the convoluted path that his thin-film solar panels follow from birth to shipping truck. The raw materials the workers carry are ultra-thin sheets of flexible plastic, which are then coated with a series of chemicals--indium, gallium, diselenide--that allows the module to turn sunlight into electricity...
...kids won't sit still for an hour-long workout--or more likely, sitting still is exactly what they will do. But none of that is necessary. Katz has developed school programs based on short bursts of activity five or more times a day. The goal is not to follow a single regimen but to create your...
...electronic grunts and sighs, or in one-word bursts, like a chattier R2-D2. The movie's other main creature, a robot named EVE, also can speak only a few words. Yet it's Pixar's big, bold belief that the mass audience will be astute enough to follow the visual clues and game enough to play along. So confident is the studio in its ability to charm audiences, it has made a futurist movie that's a lot like an old silent picture...