Innovation Driven Growth

😊 Kevin's background and the story about a bad hire day. 02:23
🤯 Making innovative culture interesting: Putting bank regulations in a song "No sleep till Brooklyn, by the Beastie Boys". 05:11
🧐 Consumers are coming to the salesperson more educated about products and services than 20 years ago. 08:06
🔬 Sales professionals now have to know all about the industry, research trends globally, and expand their knowledge base a lot.  09:56
😅 ArgosRisk technology solutions for B2B credit risk management, enabling companies of all sizes to proactively manage and monitor risk. 11:50
🕵️‍♂️ ArgosRisk and daily third-party vetting - checking out on another business. 14:14
🩹 China syndrome and having only a yearly report of your business partners. 16:23
👍 Having a daily financial report of business partners during pandemic helped ArgosRisk's clients so much.19:02
🎯 How innovation is played out in ArgosRisk evolving? 27:12
🤖 The level of insights that allow businesses to make more informed decisions on who to do business with will expand in the future. 32:42
🪡 Allowing people to use your products, data, and services, tailored is pretty important.40:09
⚠️ Every kid coming out of college is should read the book Innovator's dilemma 43:28
😎 Looking for ideas on how to innovate? Learn from professionals and join product camp.org
🤩Three nuggets Kevin shares. 46:56
🙃 Gold Leaf's library of funny innovative videos. 49:09

😇 www.argosrisk.com

🙃 www.linkedin.com/in/kevinsasser

📚 www.amazon.com/Innovators-Dilemma-Revolutionary-Change-Business/dp/0062060244

💻 www.productcamp.org

🎥"The China Syndrome" film - www.imdb.com/title/tt0078966

🔗Connect with David:
💥 [email protected]

🗣️ www.facebook.com/DPSpeaks

📖 David’s book Grounded - www.davidpeterson.com/book/grounded

🎸David played background music for Linda Baskin’s art show in Dayton. 01:14
🖼️ Stepping out of the comfort zone: Linda's paintings had a theme and the show had its own concept. 04:52
🎯 Professional artist and professional musician. 07:39
🙋‍♂️ Welcome, Linda! 09:12
🎨 The Radical Acceptance art show was about acknowledging the hard times in life but also good, joyful things. 11:29
😃 Linda decided to start painting just 18 months ago. 15:36
🌸 One more example of Linda's stepping way out of her stepping zone. 18:04
🌞 Not knowing everything is the most important to step out of the comfort zone. 22:18
🖌️ Painting 'Faces' was the only painting at the show that was not for sale. 25:01
🧪 Linda's formula for creating a great product. 28:53
🤓 The difference between innovation in a flash or an inspiration of genius, and experimental or interpretive innovation. 35:19
🤩 Cézanne an experimental painter vs. Picasso's flash of inspiration 38:40
🖍️ Linda is Picasso.  43:03
🔥 Be a Picasso or a Cézanne, just don't give up. 43:43
Painting 'Faces': https://postimg.cc/RN9Nf63n

Bodazza Studios
https://www.bodazzastudios.com/

Malcolm Gladwell – Revisionist History – Hallelujah episode
https://www.pushkin.fm/episode/hallelujah/

Connect with David: [email protected]
Linda Baskin painting: https://prnt.sc/1017orl
Link to David’s book Grounded - https://davidpeterson.com/book/grounded/

😇 Aviv likes to wake up in the morning and try to solve a problem that nobody else is trying to solve.1:50
👦 He was inquisitive as a child and asked so many questions. 2:56
🌞 The idea behind Solar Simplified. 5:02
✅ Aviv was not in the solar business before, but he was drawn to it. 
🤝 Solar Simplified connects consumers with solar power plants (solar farms) 8:21
➗ Half of the countries in the US have deregulated markets where private companies are part of the market. 11:08
🔆 Even it is a young company Solar Simplified serves over 1000 households and growing in upstate New York.19:26
☀️ How Solar Simplified works? 20:21
💰 How to get a guaranteed discount on your energy bill? 21:33 
⭐ In recent Texas events, a megawatt per hour price increased about 500 times more than what it should be. 25:39
💡 The three major challenges in sharing the green wealth with society. 28:53
😎 Bill Maher issues with getting solar energy and how Solar Simplified would help in that case. 31:23
💚 Solar Simplified has an idea to be green and save money too as many people as possible in the future 5 years. 35:32
👍 Continue asking questions, continue to be curious, and learn what money is and how the system really works. 37:53
🖥️ Take a minute to sign up on a Solar Simplified site so we can spread our network and save you money. 41:48

https://solarsimplified.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/avivshalgi/
https://www.facebook.com/solarsimplifiedusa  
https://www.instagram.com/avivshalgi/?hl=en

😂 Gatherings with my sister Linda and brother Larry are always filled with fun, jokes, and love.
🎨 My sister Linda is an amazing painter. 3:06
🖼️ Linda Baskin Art Show preparations. 5:35
🎶 David is going to do background music for Linda Baskin’s upcoming art show on March 27th.   6:15
🎸 David Musical background – learning to play guitar is not easy. 8:17
🎼 David has never performed a “concert” alone, but he embraced music from his college days until today. 11:09
👌 Popular music sets an “expectation” of what those songs are supposed to sound like. 15:06
🤔 David's book Grounded. Word Grounded has positive and negative meanings. 19:52
😨 We get stuck in our comfort zone because of fear of failure, or fear of embarrassment. 24:38
👣 4 steps to get out of your comfort zone. 26:50
🌠 Wisdom from Roger von Oech - Whack it!  31:16
👆 Get support and get rid of excuses. 33:44
💪 Flesk your risk muscle. 34:27
🗓️ Set a deadline and Be Persistent. 36:12

Connect with David: [email protected]
Linda Baskin painting: http://prntscr.com/1017orl
Linda Baskin Show: https://prnt.sc/109ml4j
Link to David’s book Grounded - https://davidpeterson.com/book/grounded/
Wisdom from Roger von Oech – “Whack on the side of the head” - shorturl.at/lvQVX 

🛫 Ryan is an ex-naval flight officer and after the military, he started working in the banking niche. 1:01 
🚖 Driving for Uber and Lyft after the military was an amazing experience in gig working and gig economy for Ryan. 3:03
💵 Gridwise app is focusing on the ride-share and delivery area of the gig economy by helping drivers boost their profits. 4:34
🙃 When Ryan worked as a gig driver, he realized that the core problem is in the fragmentation and inaccessibility of key data drivers need to have. 09:08
👦 Ryan was intrigued with sales from a young age, and he continued with his entrepreneurial ideas in sixth grade too. 12:27
✨ What can you do to affect the young population and spark innovative and entrepreneurial thinking in them?  14:03
📱 How GridWise was made, and how the app succeeds to answer all needs drivers have. 18:13
😇 Gridwise app helps, even with estimated tax deductions for drivers, and it is free. 24:06
🛣️ Marketing for the app started from personal advertising all the way to digital advertising channels. 29:01  
📊 Harvesting metadata and analytics from the app are valuable for other stakeholders but also a significant source of new revenue income. 30:53
📅 About the future of gig drivers. 35:14
💲 Gridwise will help drivers earn more profit directly from their platform in the future. 37:40
📈 In five years from now, Ryan plans to add more insurance products, financial services, income protection, phone protection, in healthcare and other benefits to his app. 39:04
🔥 Ryan's advice for future entrepreneurs. 45:30
✌️ Do not forget to tip service drivers in these hard times and mention Gridwise to help them even more. 49:07 

Links
 https://gridwise.io/
🔗Connect with David:
[email protected]
https://www.facebook.com/DPSpeaks/ 

🤯  A large number of products were discovered by a mistake. (Roundup, Play Dough, Men's Rogaine etc)  1:04
🙈 Why are we so afraid of failure? 5:26
🙃 Being A student or F student: Being a successful innovator means you have to have a ton of bad ideas. 9:11
✌️ Start off by thinking failure is good and don't let anybody limit your ability to come up with an idea.12:00
👀 People who come up with ideas will get noticed by time. 13:42
☝️ There is a big difference between error in innovation and error in execution. 15:17
🤓 Success can create additional problems. 18:49
😲 Success can breed overconfidence. 23:15
🔴 What happens if you get stuck in the 'Numbing effect of routine' with no adjustments of processes? 26:04
🔎 Examining the effects of a new idea or project, especially negative effects. 28:00
🙋‍♂️ Be boldly ready to raise your hand and offer up an idea. 31:49

📘 Book 'A Whack on the Side of the Head'
:https://www.amazon.com/Whack-Side-Head-More-Creative/dp/0446404667

📚 David's book 'Grounded!'
: https://www.amazon.com/Grounded-David-L-Peterson/dp/1944340009/r

👨‍🌾 Farmers are experiencing all challenges related to a business, plus they have soil and weather issues. 1:11
💻 Justin Fisher is a FinTech guy, with experience in farming 2:47
🤓 How is hemp different from marijuana?   6:46
😳 Because of legislation issues, you can plant hemp legally, but it can grow to be illegal. 10:00
📈 About the legal framework of farming hemp and growth of interest for hemp in many agricultural states. 15:54
👂 Cannabinoids: CBD is challenged, as the FDA hasn't set clear regulations around it. 18:34
🪴 'Training the plant' is something that all businesses need to think about to achieve their goal.  23:37
💰 Looking at the side of the financial services and issues farmers have to get financial products (bank accounts, loans, insurance) 26:26
🌞 How RiskScout helps banks in high-risk businesses and also farmers who want to grow hemp? 34:45 
🤑 The first person who develops an iPad for measuring THC levels in hemp will be a billionaire. 38:04
🏦 Community banks will have to rethink what their purpose is and innovate too. 41:09  

Get in touch with Justin:
https://www.riskscout.com/
[email protected]
Listen to IDG podcast on https://idg.podcastnetwork.io/

😲An engineer working for Tesla has re-engineered the chocolate chip! 0:56
👍He did it better but it took him a few years. 02:31
💪Salesman invented the extension of a wing for a sailboat. 4:06
✨What really matters--find ways to make improvements. 4:50
🎯Every single individual in the company needs to be innovating. 6:25
📣How you get those ideas heard? 7:40
✌️Allow time for innovation in your company and people will be engaged. 13:52
🔔Innovation Challenge as a path for all HR issues with long-term benefits. 19:51
📈It's about improving the gross margin, not only about team building. 22:44
👀How to convert creative ideas into innovations? 28:53
https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/tesla-upgrades-chocolate-chips 

https://prnt.sc/upimx2

https://www.mdtmi.com/about-mdt/    
🔗Connect with David: 

[email protected]

https://www.facebook.com/DPSpeaks/ 

🔀 Marketing and PR may not overlap. Being channel-agnostic. 02:42

❄️ "We are used to personalization." 04:49

😷The Covid-19 crisis impacted the ways we interact with brands. 09:43

💣 How to tailor a message that will not be offensive to anybody? 13:58

 ⏰ Algorithms and recommendations. How they save time.  21:25

🏅 Innovations in the financial industry. Behind the scenes. 27:46

🛍️ B2B vs. B2C and factors that influence customers' decisions. 30:57

✨ Importance of representation and diversity in marketing. 34:47

🌱 Young millennials and Gen Z people are natural digital communicators and marketers. 40:41

👩 Find Binna on Twitter https://twitter.com/binnaskim, LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/binnak/ and learn more about Vested https://fullyvested.com/ 44:55  

🦠 Public activities during COVID-19 01:32
👏Kudos to the City of Montgomery: Innovative 4th of July parade. 2:24
⚽Innovation from Argentina: human foosball. 5:36
🙌Don't be afraid: find the intersection of necessity and opportunity. 8:40
👦My grandson's creation and working "with a purpose". 11:11 
🌷When a young person shows any creativity, encourage it, and let it flourish! 14:06
😲Kelvin Doe aka DJ Focus - a 15-year old innovator. 16:08
🌱David Senge's ongoing program for young innovators. 17:36
💥Be the spark that sets innovative fire. 19:29
🔗Connect https://davidpeterson.com/ and https://www.linkedin.com/in/dlpspeaks

Show links:

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/30/884770859/this-reverse-parade-will-allow-july-fourth-revelry-from-a-social-distance. 

https://www.wgbh.org/news/international-news/2020/07/03/human-foosball-new-form-of-soccer-developed-for-pandemic 

http://prntscr.com/tnj464  and https://prnt.sc/to2fa6  https://youtu.be/XOLOLrUBRBY