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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

365QOD- Day626

"Plenty of companies are a religion, where people take their cues from the top.  Intuit is a science lab, where anything can be tested and proven incorrect. 'When you have only one test, you don't have entrepreneurs; you have politicians.  When you have lots of ideas you have entrepreneurs'"-Scott Cook

I recently read an article in Inc. magazine on Intuit. It was called the 30-Year-Old Start-up.  It talked about how Intuit's culture encourages entrepreneurship.  They encourage the behavior of a start-up: fast-moving, embracing uncertainty, continuously learning.  They follow Ries' Lean Startup definition of a start-up: 'a human institution designed to create a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty'.

This behavior has led them to develop new products at a faster rate than their competition.

Today's question is:
"How comfortable are you with uncertainty?"

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