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Moonshot Thinking
The document discusses moonshot thinking as a framework for driving radical innovation and business disruption, inspired by concepts from Google X and Peter Diamandis. It outlines a five-step process for companies to adopt this approach, which includes hiring young talent, questioning existing practices, generating bold ideas, prioritizing solutions, and funding the most promising initiatives. The overall goal is to aim for transformative improvements and tackle global challenges through ambitious and visionary strategies.
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Moonshot Thinking
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- 19. The biggest benefitof Apollo was the inspiration it gave to a growing generation to get into science and aerospace. “ Buzz Aldrin, Astronaut
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- 21. After Apollo 17,America stopped looking towards the next horizon. The United States had become a space-faring nation, but threw it away. We have sacrificed space exploration for space exploitation, which is interesting but scarcely visionary. Eugene Cernan, Astronaut “
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- 27. We wanted flying cars,instead we got 140 characters. Peter Thiel “
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- 29. A ten percent improvement means that you're doing the same thing as everybody else. Larry Page “
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- 31. Companies fail because theydo the wrong things or they aren't ambitious, not because of litigation or competition. “ Larry Page
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- 34. Moonshot thinking isshooting for the moon. Moonshots live in the gray area between audacious projects and pure science fiction; they are 10X improvement, not 10%. Google X is leading the 10X movement. MOONSHOT THINKING
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- 36. Radical Solution Breakthrough Technology Huge Problem MoonshotThinking atGoogleX They take onglobal-scale problems, define radical solutions to those problems, and involve some form of breakthrough technology that could actually make them happen. They look for 10X improvements and solutions that will help one billion people.
- 37. If you’re notdoing some things that are crazy, then you’re doing the wrong things. Larry Page “
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- 41. PROJECTWING Rapidly deliver products usingflying vehicles
- 42. It’s often easierto make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better. Astro Teller, Google X “
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- 47. Cool! But I amnot Google X!
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- 50. Your biggest problemsare your biggest opportunities. Peter Diamandis, X Prize “
- 51. 1 Hire some 20-somethings todo some digging
- 52. The first stepis to create a Strike Force of young people. Why young people? They are smart, hard working, and naive. All the qualities you want in someone who trying to reinvent a system. They have no preconceived notions about the way the world is supposed to work. This gives them the ability to question everything.
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- 54. So where doyou find your strike force? They may already work for you, or they might be graduates, or a group of local entrepreneurs. Look for passion and curiosity. Form teams of three to five people with a background in science and engineering.
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- 56. Give the StrikeForce 4-6 weeks to walk around your company and examine everything. Let them to talk to all employees, clients, suppliers, and so on. Everybody.
- 57. Have them documentthe major challenges your company is having: What is unduly hard to accomplish? Where are we missing quality? Where are we behind the competition? What are our clients' biggest complaints?
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- 59. Challenge them tothink about how the biggest challenges could be solved. Make sure to emphasize that they have NO LIMITATIONS as to the ideas they can come up with. This is critical.
- 60. Good ideas arealways crazy until they’re not. Larry Page “
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- 62. Ask the StrikeForce to compile their findings, and write up their top 10 - 20 recommendations. Rate them with regard to: Financial impact Competitive impact Ease of implementation (time and $)
- 63. 5 Fund the bestideas and best teams
- 64. Fund the bestideas and the best teams to develop the solution either internal to your business, or as outside entrepreneurial endeavors. Either way, you win.
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- 69. Lots of peopledream big and talk about big bold ideas but never do anything. I judge people by what they've done. The ratio of something to nothing is infinite. So just do something. Peter Diamandis “
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- 74. We choose togo to the moon in this decade. Not because it’s easy, but because it’s hard. “ John F. Kennedy
- 75. I have avery simple metric I use: Are you working on something that can change the world? Yes or no? The answer for 99.9999 percent of people is no. I think we need to be training people on how to change the world. “ Larry Page
- 76. In honor ofApollo 11. One giant leap for mankind.
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