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1. (Re)Introducing Entrepreneurial
Thinking to Your Organisation
Sahar Hashemi
Co-Founder of Coffee Republic,
author of Anyone Can Do it and Switched On

16. Coffee Republic
or
un-Coffee Republic

39. THINK
like a
START UP

40. The 6 habits
to take away

41. We’re talking
EVERY DAY INNOVATION
not breakthrough
innovation

42. EVERYDAY innovation
small changes
that add
up to BIG THINGS

43. UNLOCKING
your team’s
innovation &
creative capacity

44. THE BIGGER
WE GET
the smaller
we act

45. Habit 1
Step into the customer’s shoes

46. Become
the
Customer

47. Make your
focus
EXTERNAL
Not
INTERNAL

49. Customers

50. Us
(the company)

51. Vs.

52. Them
(customers)

53. “EMPATHY is the ultimate
virtual reality - climbing into
another persons mind to
experience the world from
their perspective”
Daniel Pink

55. PILLOW
TALK

56. “Marketing is giving people
something they DON’T even
KNOW they WANT.”

57. Market
Research

59. “If I had asked my
customers what they
wanted they would have
said a faster horse.”
Henry Ford

61. “We don’t do market
research we figure out
what we want. ”
Steve Jobs

62. Habit 2
Get out
of the office

63. Beware
of
Bureacracy!

64. “Genchi Genbutsu.”
“Go and see for yourself.”

65. Busyness
vs.
Business

67. Stimulus IN
=
Ideas OUT

70. Habit 3
The importance
of being clueless

71. This is
how we’ve
always
done it
It’s not
industry
practice
Someone
tried this…
It doesn’t
work
Believe
me I know
what works
Dominant
logic says…

72. The
Expert Trap

74. “Go find me a 19 year
old who doesn’t know it
cant go any faster.”
Henry Ford

75. UN- Learning

76. INNOVATION
IS AN ACT OF
CREATIVE
DESTRUCTION

78. Habit 4
Bootstrapping

79. MAKE IT HAPPEN
CULTURE

80. Habit 5
MAKE IT HAPPEN
Bootstrapping
& Prototyping

81. Corporate
Traffic
Lights

82. “Anything worth doing is
worth doing..
badly.”

83. 2+2=

85. “I made 5,127 prototypes of
my vacuum before I got it
right. There were 5,126
failures, but I learned from
each one. That’s how I came
up with a solution.”
James Dyson

87. “Move fast and
break things.”
“Done is better
than perfect.”
Mark Zuckerburg,
The Hacker Way

88. MONEY
IS A POOR
SUBSTITUTE FOR
CREATIVITY

89. “If I’d had shed loads of
money I’d have done
everything wrong.”
Dame Anita Roddick

90. Habit 5
Notching up no’s

92. 217
rejections

93. 300
rejections

94. 12
said no to

95. WE LOVE
THE OLD
WE REJECT
THE NEW

96. NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO

97. NO

98. YES

99. Habit 6
Taking 100% of
yourself to work

100. ENTREPRENEURIAL
PASSION
PERFORMANCE

101. 100% of
you
Work
YOU

102. “Fun is not a form of
entertainment.
It’s an integral part of
being good at what you
do at work.”
Daniel Pink