060 - Smaller is Better with Brady Brim-DeForest

The Kurty D Show

Episode Highlights:

• Small is Better: How small, autonomous teams can spearhead targeted missions.
• The Paradox of Failure and Success
• Breaking the Fear of Failure: A New Mindset for Organizations
• How to be adaptable and nimble in taking risks
• The need to change mindsets within organizations
• Taking risks in many different places in the organization

Tweetable Quotes:

• “Time is linear. Knowledge is exponential. And a book is a great way to memorialize that knowledge and make it accessible.” — Brady Brim-DeForest
• “Vulnerability is such a powerful medicine.” — Brady Brim-DeForest
• “Failure is a necessary ingredient for success.” — Brady Brim-DeForest
• “I think the nest real value in cross-functional is that you have unbounded thinking, and it encourages first principle reasoning too. ” — Brady Brim-DeForest
• “The closer you are to the higher density information, the more efficient your decision will be.” — Brady Brim-DeForest
• “Large organizations tend to concentrate on resources, human resources, and capital, but they are also the breeding ground for innovation.” — Brady Brim-DeForest
• “Autonomy doesn’t just mean at the edge; it is a way of efficiency and decision making.” — Brady Brim-DeForest
• “None of us can accurately predict the outcomes of any hypotheses we’re testing. So, the only way to proceed is to take the risk.” — Brady Brim-DeForest
• “Risk comes along with failure.” — Brady Brim-DeForest
• “Increasing the speed at which you fail is the critical path and requirement to succeed.” — Brady Brim-DeForest
• “We see failure as a negative thing and must change our mindset and the organization we work to embrace failure. ” — Brady Brim-DeForest
• “You will never reach the upside if you don’t stumble along the way.” — Brady Brim-DeForest
• “Waste is the byproduct of experimentation.” — Brady Brim-DeForest
• “People have the freedom to fail because that’s where sort of improvisation in the ensemble happens.” — Kurt Daradics
• “We all could be looking at the exact same information and come to totally different conclusions, but that only happens if we are looking at the same set of data.” — Brady Brim-DeForest

Links Mentioned:

• Kurt’s Twitter
• Kurt’s Instagram
• Kurt’s LinkedIn
• Brady Brim-DeForest Website
• Smaller is Better Book Website
• Aaron Ross
• Duke Stump
• Jack Dangermond
• Katie Decker
• Ken Burns
• Myles Sutherland
• Talia Jacqueline
• Esri
• Formulamonk
• Lime