Moonshots live in the gray area between audacious technology and pure science fiction. Instead of a mere 10% gain, a moonshot aims for a 10x improvement over...
When Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin set up shop in Susan Wojcicki's garage in Menlo Park 15 years ago, they had a fairly straightforward plan: Organize and make useful all of the world's information. That may have been the company's first example of 10x thinking, according to Patrick Pichette, the company's CFO, but it certainly was not--and won't be--the last.
It’s easy to become a complacent thinker. Its easy to apply your current framework of thinking to new encounters, ideas, and propositions. Its easy to think within boundaries, within familiar containers, and within normal. Its not easy to push through that threshold to unleash your thinking, to discard and lay behind you the boundaries that constrain thought.
Posts about 10x Thinking written by Daniel H. Steinberg
In just 15 short years (how time flies when it comes to innovation online), Google has gone from a company with one product to one with more projects than you can name,...Read More ››
I came across and interesting (and long – 25 minutes) video that was of one of Google’s brand builders and someone who touches thousands of pieces of innovation inside Google. It is worth the watch...
Larry Page lives by the gospel of 10x. Most companies would be happy to improve a product by ten per cent. Not the CEO and cofounder of Google
