Diego just put up an absolutely inspired post over at Harvard Online about Travis Pastrana. Who cares about the MBA debate when there is innovation stuff like this to think about! Really, what degree you have doesn't matter, and having a degree does not even matter in many cases, it is what people do and think that counts. Diego's Harvard MBA has apparently not hurt him one bit. Read the post and watch the film with it. He uses a 28 second video of a crazy stunt to extract some "metacool" lessons for our time. A taste:
2. Use planning to minimize the stupid risks. even
Travis is wearing a helmet for this one. And notice that this is his
third-time-charmed attempt. Now more than ever, when the price of
failing is so high, it's a good idea to minimize secondary risks even
as we embrace big leaps. That might mean building an extra prototype,
running another market test, or getting out in the field with customers
more than usual. These days your big or small leaps really need to
work, so a little extra midnight oil is probably worth it. There's
enough risk out there as it is, why not cut out all the dumb risks to
better focus on the big ones?
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