Mark Palmer 6/30/22 Mark Palmer 6/30/22

The 50X Innovation Axiom

Mark Palmer 12/7/21 Mark Palmer 12/7/21

8 Mistakes Leaders Are Making with Data Science and How to Fix Them

Mark Palmer 12/4/21 Mark Palmer 12/4/21

Simple Ideas Are Best

Mark Palmer 6/2/21 Mark Palmer 6/2/21

The Intrapreneuring Manifesto

Mark Palmer 1/13/21 Mark Palmer 1/13/21

There’s No Rule

Mark Palmer 12/30/20 Mark Palmer 12/30/20

Trevor Bauer Goals, 2021

Trevor Bauer was the best pitcher in baseball last year. On the Northstar Podcast, he explained his views on physics, analytics, and the evolution of “pitch design.”

Bauer the Chief Technology Officer of pitching.

Bauer is the Bryson DeChambeau of baseball.

Bauer is the Peter Thiel of MLB.

Bauer is a 2021 goal setting inspiration: a curious, polymathic, controversial leapfrogger.

Mark Palmer 12/24/20 Mark Palmer 12/24/20

The Theory of Tech Evolution

The theory of technology evolution, by Kevin Kelly. Extended to explain Spotfire Mods, which accelerates evolution growth.

Mark Palmer 12/20/20 Mark Palmer 12/20/20

The Hard Part

Stripe founders Patrick and John Collison remind us that great ideas can be simple. Their original payments system was 7 lines of code. Now Stripe is worth $36 billion. The idea was easy. The hard part was knowing which 7 lines mattered.

Mark Palmer 12/16/20 Mark Palmer 12/16/20

Just Re-Do It.

Kevin Kelly said, “To make something good, just do it. To make something great, just re-do it, re-do it, re-do it. The secret to making fine things is in remaking them.”

Mark Palmer 12/15/20 Mark Palmer 12/15/20

The Art of Value Realization

Streaming data science is like an algorithmic Wayne Gretzky.

Mark Palmer 12/5/20 Mark Palmer 12/5/20

Innovation is Culture, Not Technology

Mark Palmer 11/27/20 Mark Palmer 11/27/20

Too Many Fields of Dreams

Mark Palmer 11/26/20 Mark Palmer 11/26/20

The Panera Bread Blue Ocean

A critical question about Blue Ocean Strategy is whether its ideas are prescriptive or merely descriptive. That is, is there a recipe to find, define, and attack an uncontested market space? Or are they only visible after they appear, like a field of dreams? Au Bon Pain’s metamorphosis into Panera Bread shows how one blue ocean was built.

Mark Palmer 11/23/20 Mark Palmer 11/23/20

Failure Builds Growth, Mastery and Trust

Mark Palmer 11/22/20 Mark Palmer 11/22/20

Fix It

Mark Palmer 11/19/20 Mark Palmer 11/19/20

Decisive Moments

Mark Palmer 11/15/20 Mark Palmer 11/15/20

Panera Bread Body Surfing

Panera Bread’s story is pure entrepreneurial inspiration. On NPR’s How I Built This, Ron Shaich, founder and CEO, compared building Panera to body surfing waves in the ocean. I loved that metaphor, and, 10 days, I’m going to share each element of his story, wrapped in the body surfing metaphor and images from some of the world’s best surfing photographers to illuminate each idea.