{"id":3967,"date":"2019-11-22T09:15:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T17:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markccrowley.com\/?p=3967"},"modified":"2020-02-06T11:52:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T19:52:19","slug":"safi-bahcall-how-to-nurture-crazy-ideas-into-breakthrough-innovations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-wmplo.xyz\/mark-c-divi5\/safi-bahcall-how-to-nurture-crazy-ideas-into-breakthrough-innovations\/","title":{"rendered":"Safi Bahcall: How To Nurture Crazy Ideas Into Breakthrough Innovations"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.blubrry.com\/?media_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.blubrry.com%2Fleadfromtheheartpodcast%2Fcontent.blubrry.com%2Fleadfromtheheartpodcast%2FLFTH_-_Episode_38.mp3&amp;podcast_link=https%3A%2F%2Fstaging-wmplo.xyz%2Fmark-c-divi5%2Fsafi-bahcall-how-to-nurture-crazy-ideas-into-breakthrough-innovations%2F#mode-Light&border-000000&progress-000000\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"165\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"blubrryplayer-1\" class=\"blubrryplayer\" title=\"Blubrry Podcast Player\"><\/iframe><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/leadfromtheheartpodcast\/content.blubrry.com\/leadfromtheheartpodcast\/LFTH_-_Episode_38.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/staging-wmplo.xyz\/mark-c-divi5\/?powerpress_pinw=3967-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/leadfromtheheartpodcast\/content.blubrry.com\/leadfromtheheartpodcast\/LFTH_-_Episode_38.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"LFTH_-_Episode_38.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/staging-wmplo.xyz\/mark-c-divi5\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Safi-1000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3968 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/staging-wmplo.xyz\/mark-c-divi5\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Safi-1000-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging-wmplo.xyz\/mark-c-divi5\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Safi-1000-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging-wmplo.xyz\/mark-c-divi5\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Safi-1000-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/staging-wmplo.xyz\/mark-c-divi5\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Safi-1000-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/staging-wmplo.xyz\/mark-c-divi5\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Safi-1000-240x240.jpg 240w, https:\/\/staging-wmplo.xyz\/mark-c-divi5\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Safi-1000-184x184.jpg 184w, https:\/\/staging-wmplo.xyz\/mark-c-divi5\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Safi-1000.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Some of the greatest business innovations of our time were first proposed by other companies, but summarily rejected: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>***<\/strong> <strong>Polaroid<\/strong>\u00a0(now gone) invented the digital camera \u2013 and then ditched it in the belief it couldn\u2019t make money.<\/p>\n<p><strong>***<\/strong> Engineers at cell-phone maker, <strong>Nokia,<\/strong> proposed a device that had all the functionality of the I-Phone \u2013 three years before Apple made it one of the most successful products in history.<\/p>\n<p><strong>***<\/strong> <strong>Blockbuster Video<\/strong>\u00a0once sat atop the video rental business and had thousands of stores and millions of customers. But its unwillingness to alter its business model allowed Netflix to disrupt the industry and send Blockbuster into bankruptcy.<\/p>\n<p>In the real world of business, new ideas get dismissed all the time by leaders who instinctively judge them to be \u201ccrazy,\u201d \u201ctoo costly\u201d or out of line with conventional wisdom. Nevertheless, other companies find ways to nurture, protect and patiently develop new ideas until they become competitive advantages \u2013 even breakthrough &amp; disruptive innovations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/staging-wmplo.xyz\/mark-c-divi5\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/safi-book-cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3969 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/staging-wmplo.xyz\/mark-c-divi5\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/safi-book-cover-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging-wmplo.xyz\/mark-c-divi5\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/safi-book-cover-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/staging-wmplo.xyz\/mark-c-divi5\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/safi-book-cover.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a>In his new <strong><em>Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/strong> bestseller<em>, \u201c<strong>Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars<\/strong><\/em><em>,\u00a0<\/em><strong><em>Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries<\/em><\/strong><em>,<\/em>\u201d podcast guest Safi Bahcall brilliantly (not hyperbole) explains what behaviors differentiate organizations that repeatedly birth new ideas \u2013 ones that often change the world or at least ensure their business endures \u2013 from the ones that unwittingly resist any change to the status quo.\u00a0 At a time when just about every business is ripe for some kind of disruption, Bahcall\u2019s insights represent rather timely and essential leadership knowhow.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft founder, <strong>Bill Gates<\/strong> picked \u201c<strong><em>Loonshots\u201d <\/em><\/strong>one of his must reads for 2019.\u00a0 Authors <strong>Malcolm Gladwell, Daniel Pink, Adam Grant and Susan Cain <\/strong>named it one of the \u201ctwo most groundbreaking non-fiction reads of the season.\u201d <em><strong>Bloomberg Magazine<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0says Loonshots was the &#8220;most recommended book of the year by CEOs + entrepreneurs!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A \u201cloonshot\u201d is a widely dismissed idea whose champions are often seen as crazy. And using examples from past loonshots (like radar, the internet, Pixar movies et al), Bahcall joins us on this podcast to explain the unique mindset &amp; key behaviors of people &amp; teams who ensured they all became real.<\/p>\n<p>A massively informative conversation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the greatest business innovations of our time were first proposed by other companies, but summarily rejected: *** Polaroid\u00a0(now gone) invented the digital camera \u2013 and then ditched it in the belief it couldn\u2019t make money. *** Engineers at cell-phone maker, Nokia, proposed a device that had all the functionality of the I-Phone \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[283],"tags":[304,441,419,258,440,439],"class_list":["post-3967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-bill-gates","tag-disruption","tag-innovation","tag-lead-from-the-heart","tag-loonshots","tag-safi-bahcall"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Safi Bahcall: How To Nurture Crazy Ideas Into Breakthrough Innovations - Mark C. 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