{"id":383,"date":"2013-11-18T08:09:46","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T21:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=383"},"modified":"2013-11-18T08:09:46","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T21:09:46","slug":"big-think-everyone-wants-to-create-the-product-of-tomorrow-you-also-need-to-deliver-on-the-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=383","title":{"rendered":"Big Think: Everyone Wants to Create the Product of Tomorrow. You Also Need to Deliver on the &#8216;Today&#8217;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/big-think-edge\/everyone-wants-to-create-the-product-of-tomorrow-you-also-need-to-deliver-on-the-today\">http:\/\/bigthink.com\/big-think-edge\/everyone-wants-to-create-the-product-of-tomorrow-you-also-need-to-deliver-on-the-today<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Like moths, we are attracted to light. In a company, that light is innovation. Everyone wants to be a part of the latest greatest thing. But that should not come at the expense of delivering on a product that has already been developed.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"post\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/users\/stephenmiles\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Miles<\/a>\u00a0argues that a balance must be maintained between optimization on one front and growing things on the other front. &#8220;I think a lot of times we optimize on one or the other which sub-optimizes the company,&#8221; Miles says.<\/p>\n<p>He presents three key ways to maintain this balance.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To be successful, innovation requires both the planting of seeds and the pruning of buds.<\/li>\n<li>Experimentation is a strategy that supports innovation without sacrificing optimization.<\/li>\n<li>Leadership teams should contain a complementary mix of planters and pruners, or innovators and optimizers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/bigthink.com\/big-think-edge\/everyone-wants-to-create-the-product-of-tomorrow-you-also-need-to-deliver-on-the-today Like moths, we are attracted to light. In a company, that light is innovation. Everyone wants to be a part of the latest greatest thing. But that should not come at the expense of delivering on a product that has already been developed. Stephen Miles\u00a0argues that a balance must be maintained between optimization on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=383\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Big Think: Everyone Wants to Create the Product of Tomorrow. You Also Need to Deliver on the &#8216;Today&#8217;.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entrepreneurship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":384,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions\/384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}