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Most growth experiments aim to convince people who aren’t doing a certain thing to start doing it. Ideally, those experiments rest on a theory about why they’re not doing it in the first place.
— Matt Lerner

Author: Matt Lerner | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Market Research, Marketing / Sales

Statistical researchers always try to disprove a null hypothesis (e.g., we believe income and education are not correlated). Doing so reduces the risk of confirmation bias.
— Matt Lerner

Author: Matt Lerner | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Market Research, Marketing / Sales, Statistics

One of the conclusions from our research on power is that what power does to people is bring out their most basic instincts and impulses. And because of how we’re socialized in the world, there are people for whom power is very attractive and it’s easy for them to see themselves in positions of power and they like the idea of having control, and there … [ Read more ]
— Deborah H. Gruenfeld

Author: Deborah H. Gruenfeld | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Power / Authority

I think where a lot of managers struggle, is that because they’re so uncomfortable with the idea of power and hierarchy … they assume they should not take ownership of the authority that they have and pretend that it doesn’t exist to try to keep things more equal than they are.
— Deborah H. Gruenfeld

Author: Deborah H. Gruenfeld | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Management, Personal Development

People have a tendency to form hierarchies almost instantly in all kinds of organizational settings, whether the task requires it or not.
— Deborah H. Gruenfeld

Author: Deborah H. Gruenfeld | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

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In principle, patents open up innovations in two ways. First, they confer only temporary rights; once patents expire or are abandoned, the intellectual property they are designed to protect passes into the public domain. Second, they require the details of the invention to be disclosed so they can be replicated. This permits follow-on innovation, which is essential for industrial progress. More recently, as the patent system … [ Read more ]
— The Economist

As for the genius of innovation, clearly the one percent spark of inspiration is nurtured by a positive culture. But the 99 percent perspiration ingredient comes from employees who love what they do, as well as where they do it, and who invest in that Holy Grail of productivity called “discretionary … [ Read more ]
— Stephanie Quappe, David Samso Aparici, Jon Warshawsky

Money never comes first in self-expression of any kind.
— William J. Reilly

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no … [ Read more ]
— Theodore Roosevelt

The uncomfortable fact for many green marketers--and targets of that marketing--is that genuinely going green would mean giving up most of the products and services that clutter our consumer culture. It would mean simplifying, valuing time and people over stuff. How can most products avoid the sin of the hidden trade-off? With a simple label: "You don't really need this."
— David Roberts

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