R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness

Think about when I actually metrics mean, rather than just simply measuring things in your life.

I discuss some key differences between Innovation and Research and Development. It’s important to think about how these are different, and the similarities between the two. Innovation tends to be a lot more brighter than research and development.

Organizational design and product design are key aspects of creating new organizations. We don’t emphasize them enough and walk people through different elements of design.

Thinking about beauty, feeling, and aesthetic is important to both products and organizations. These traits require active thinking to make sure that not on the utility occurs, but also the aesthetic that you hope will occur.

My point is that you have to actually manage design in a way that is similar to managing other traits and features in the organization. The design that you prefer won’t naturally occur unless by chance, or you spend some resources ensuring that it does occur.

We should all spend more time nerding out about the things that we live. Nerding out and allows you to do things that are wonderful in this world.

The key ingredient from creating new products from nothing is persistence and using the feedback that you get to learn something. You have to assume it’s gonna take you many years by the time something actually is going to work, and most people are going to quit before it actually does.

It’s important to focus on what you do well and realized it that drawing inferences from other people is likely problematic. It’s highly likely they’re not similar to you, and they have far different characteristics that can’t be generalized from.

In other words, you’re good enough. Just keep being you.

it always takes a long time, and if you think about what you’re trying to do as a 30 year journey you’re likely going to make a lot different decisions. Here’s the thing it’s not a 30 year journey, but it’s likely a lot more than that.

Keep making decisions that will help you over the long run.

The more I talk openly about my life and about everything that goes on, the more people come to me and let me know then I’m not alone. You need to know that you’re not alone either. Start being more open it feels pretty good.

Minimize the risk of something bad happening. Everything in life has risk, and those risks increase when you interact with other people. However, you can’t rely on what other people are going to do.

Live your life such that you’re happy and joyful person, but minimize the amount of risk that you’re exposed to every day.

I think about how to create a sustainable business that will persist for a long time. It’s not as intuitive as one would think it would be, and requires a lot of factors to go right to have a sustainable and persistent business.