{"id":82,"date":"2006-01-04T08:28:18","date_gmt":"2006-01-04T15:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/?p=82"},"modified":"2006-01-04T09:16:32","modified_gmt":"2006-01-04T16:16:32","slug":"guy-kawasaki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/82\/guy-kawasaki","title":{"rendered":"Guy Kawasaki"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><!-- .caption { border-style:dashed; border-width:1px; border-color:#BBBBBB; margin-left:20px; padding:10px;}--><\/style>\n<p>I really love this guy&#8217;s way of communicating powerful, knock you out of your rut ideas. I guess these are what he calls &#8220;reboot your brain&#8221; ideas. I often like to repeat an idea he raised during a radio interview I heard with him in San Francisco. He was being interviewed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martynemko.com\/home.htm\">Marty Nemko<\/a> on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martynemko.com\/radio.shtm\">local NPR show<\/a> about careers and the workplace. Marty asked him in particular about the value of &#8220;keeping good ideas a secret.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nI was inspired by Kawasaki&#8217;s response, which was something along the lines of &#8220;there are too many good ideas to know what to do with, and execution is all that matters.&#8221; This is a challenging way of looking at the innovation-driven business world, but I think he&#8217;s on to something. As he sees is, basically you just have to pick something you really want to see happen and go with it. OK!\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI was pleased to learn recently (via <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/\">Daring Fireball<\/a> and then reminded by <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/04\/the-art-of-intrapreneurship\/\">Michael Tsai<\/a>) that Kawasaki has started a blog. Not only did he start the blog, he&#8217;s pumping out articles at a furious pace. Cool!\n<\/p>\n<p>\nKawasaki&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.typepad.com\/t\/trackback\/3965761\">most recent<\/a> article makes some good points about how to be an &#8220;intrapreneur.&#8221; That is, a really good, inventive employee of a bigger corporation. While I agree with a lot of what he says &#8211; he misses something big when he suggests that intrapreneurs should suffer artificially:\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"caption\">\nIntrapreneurs need to suffer to build cohesiveness, and you can&rsquo;t suffer if your butt is sitting in a $700 Herman Miller chair.\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI beg to differ! While regular employees are checking out after at most 6 or 7 hours in that Herman Miller chair, the intrapreneurs often need all-night accommodations for their tired asses. If they must suffer (and really, why should they?), then make them drink Farmer&#8217;s Brothers coffee or something.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe worst part? Kawasaki&#8217;s final point enjoins the intrapreneur to &#8220;start all over again&#8221; once they&#8217;ve made a successful product and been folded back into the corporate mainstream. At that rate, they&#8217;ll be sitting in scoliosis-inducing chairs forever!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really love this guy&#8217;s way of communicating powerful, knock you out of your rut ideas. I guess these are what he calls &#8220;reboot your brain&#8221; ideas. I often like to repeat an idea he raised during a radio interview I heard with him in San Francisco. He was being interviewed by Marty Nemko on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}