Inside the Minds of Enterprise Other CEO & Founders

• •optimizing key relationships with family
• •do the right thing for staff and movement
• •cross-functional integration—all disciplines (insights, design, engineering, prototype, digitization, commercialization) present from day one
• •ceos becoming individual contributors, building directly
• •making an impact and contributing to the organization

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• •ceos getting further away from product details as companies scale
• •people saying 'no' to new ideas
• •public perception and activism spreading misinformation about industrial development impactsNew
• •getting caught up in what everybody else thinks
• •business not being in a place to afford giving up sales

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• •product's success on the product side
• •inc 5000 list (three times in a row)
• •robust and increasing body of evidence (for tangible safety benefits)
• •market cap (not losing 500 million people's market)
• •frequency of mom calls (bi-weekly)

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• •the end is never the end - continue seeking solutions even when situations seem impassableNew
• •learning-by-doing: actively going to stores, selling, and understanding the market and business processes through direct experience
• •consultant/senior advice seeking - asking those successful in business for guidance
• •right thing to do for staff/movement: prioritizing internal and brand values over immediate business profit
• •strategic ally model—outsource entire functions to partners with 'skin in the game' and profit-sharing when internal capability insufficient

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• •getting caught up in what everybody else thinks
• •not understanding the broader, interconnected risks
• •holding back on new trends
• •lack of personal responsibility for failures
• •wasting money or being uneconomical

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