My Quest for the Best with Bill Ringle

Alex Kantrowitz, author of Always Day One: How the Tech Titans Plan to Stay on Top Forever Alex Kantrowitz and Bill Ringle discuss the secrets of how the culture of Amazon and Facebook spur innovation and AI to free up human creativity and can be adopted by small business leaders. *20201109* >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com  for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. body .audioplayer.skin-wave.playerid-12046400:not(.a) .ap-controls .con-playpause .playbtn , body .audioplayer.skin-wave.playerid-12046400:not(.a) .ap-controls .con-playpause .pausebtn { background-color: #111111;} jQuery(document).ready(function ($){var settings_ap12046400 = { design_skin: "skin-wave" ,autoplay: "off",disable_volume:"default" ,loop:"off" ,cue: "on" ,embedded: "off" ,preload_method:"metadata" ,design_animateplaypause:"default" ,skinwave_dynamicwaves:"off" ,skinwave_enableSpectrum:"off" ,skinwave_enableReflect:"on",settings_backup_type:"full",playfrom:"off",disable_scrub:"off",soundcloud_apikey:"" ,skinwave_comments_enable:"on",settings_php_handler:window.ajaxurl,skinwave_mode:"normal",skinwave_wave_mode:"canvas",pcm_data_try_to_generate: "on","pcm_notice": "off","notice_no_media": "on",design_color_bg: "111111",design_color_highlight: "ef6b13",skinwave_wave_mode_canvas_waves_number: "3",skinwave_wave_mode_canvas_waves_padding: "1",skinwave_wave_mode_canvas_reflection_size: "0.25",skinwave_wave_mode_canvas_mode:"normal",preview_on_hover:"off",skinwave_comments_playerid:"12046400",php_retriever:"https://myquestforthebest.com/wp-content/plugins/dzs-zoomsounds/soundcloudretriever.php" }; try{ dzsap_init(".ap_idx_18187_23",settings_ap12046400); }catch(err){ console.warn("cannot init player", err); } }); Top 3 Take-Aways from this Interview If we split work up into two categories, the idea work, and the execution work, we spent too much time working on execution on actually like supporting our preexisting products and not enough energy on dreaming up new things and bringing them to life.Optimizing process and finding ways where can bring in technology to help you cut down on execution work is really a big deal.If a company does execution right and then finds a way to make use of the ideas, that’s when they can find themselves going ahead of the market instead of playing from behind. Tweet-Ready Insights from this Episode Everybody in the company should be approaching their work as if it’s the company’s first day. #MQ4B Ep284 with Alex Kantrowitz (@Kantrowitz), author of Always Day One: How the Tech Titans Plan to Stay on Top ForeverClick To Tweet Leaders should impress upon their employees that they need to be constantly reinventing. #MQ4B Ep284 with Alex Kantrowitz (@Kantrowitz), author of Always Day One: How the Tech Titans Plan to Stay on Top ForeverClick To Tweet Why we spend so much time on execution work is because we’re bad at it. #MQ4B Ep284 with Alex Kantrowitz (@Kantrowitz), author of Always Day One: How the Tech Titans Plan to Stay on Top ForeverClick To Tweet Think about how it’s always day one and how you should be reinventing. #MQ4B Ep284 with Alex Kantrowitz (@Kantrowitz), author of Always Day One: How the Tech Titans Plan to Stay on Top ForeverClick To Tweet A company should use machine learning to help cut down some of its core work and its core businesses to let people come up with new ideas. #MQ4B Ep284 with Alex Kantrowitz (@Kantrowitz), author of Always Day OneClick To Tweet If you build a system that helps take their ingenuity and turn it into what your company does next, you’re going to be ahead of the curve. #MQ4B Ep284 with Alex Kantrowitz (@Kantrowitz), author of Always Day OneClick To Tweet The Day One mindset is to create a culture of building, creating, and inventing. #MQ4B Ep284 with Alex Kantrowitz (@Kantrowitz), author of Always Day One: How the Tech Titans Plan to Stay on Top ForeverClick To Tweet