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

I talk about how you can find good PhD students and the traditional set up of university system. I talk about how the Internet is changing university system, and I talk about the struggles of being somebody that is part of this innovation.

I talk about how Costco does many unique things that matter to the customer. They don’t do many of the things that their competitors do, so many ways that they are actually offering a worst experience. However, what they do is they focus on the things that matter to customers and then they really accentuate those.

If you are a scientist or researcher you have to realize that reviewers are absolutely ruthless in the scientific pure review process. They’re trained to be very skeptical and any additional effort that they have to do to interpret your results will be very detrimental to whether you actually get a paper accepted or not.

I talk about how to actually do business in an environment and appears to be unstable. The best that you can do is just keep moving forward, despite uncertainty that is occurring around you. Enjoy the small moments in your local environment.

Remember that building a business or a product is just a slow grind. Remember it’s gonna take a lot longer and you ever think it’s gonna take, and you just have to be happy actually doing it a little bit at a time. Get pleasure in the slow build.

I use the analogy of a little bit of paint goes along ways to many things in her life that can actually make a positive difference. Making a very minor investment early on can have tremendous benefits and who you are as a person.

I talk about the nature of innovation, and talk about how negative experiences are really important to why innovation occurs within an organization. Negative experiences lead to some identification of a problem, and then firms search for the solutions to the particular problem.

The environment that you’re part of does hold you back, but the only thing that you can do to change that is to try every day. Get up and try and keep going.

I talk about the importance of moving forward and nonstopping. No matter what happens in what you’re going through don’t stop focusing and pushing towards your goal.

I discuss what is cozzle identification and try to briefly have a short conversation about how to think about cause in research.