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The Key to Successful Innovation? Progress over Product

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While he doesn't call it out these ideas mirror Clayton Christensen's Jobs To Be Done. For people who are interested in this concept that would probably be a good place to start looking, as there are a lot of articles and related resources under that name.

Found it: https://hbr.org/2016/09/know-your-customers-jobs-to-be-done

It was good read.

If innovation is not about progress, I don’t know what is else about. Making anything new counts, even nonsense ones? I don’t think so hence I don’t get the point of the article. Focus on continues improvement is one method but not the only one. Disruptive products and services like Xerox or Uber require radical re-thinking, not merely improvement on existing product or service.

Did they really start out the article with that Henry Ford quote?

For anyone wondering what this question means: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/07/28/ford-faster-horse/

>Did they really start out the article with that Henry Ford quote?

Yep. Complete with the meaningless Corporate Memphis stock photo. All the hallmarks of some serious grade A bullshit.

It’s Inc.com as serious a business publication as People is an investigative poltical news outlet.

I don't know why this isn't mentioned more often, but Henry Ford was an actual Nazi. Like not just had sympathies or fascist tendencies. He ran an insanely antisemitic newspaper. He sent Hitler birthday presents. Hitler, in return, credits him as an inspiration and a great man.

Makes Martin Heidegger look like an antifa by comparison.

Revisionist history, omissions of information can be just as powerful as presenting false information, sometimes more powerful because everything else is correct.

> I don't know why this isn't mentioned more often, but Henry Ford was an actual Nazi.

I thought it was reasonably-common knowledge that Henry Ford was anti-Semitic and did business with the Nazis. Here's a good overview for whoever this might be new information for: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/henryfo...

Do you have source links for this?

This is a good starting point:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_International_Jew

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dearborn_Independent

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