Twitter's Ten Rules For Radical Innovators - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.org - The Diigo Meta page

• 26 Oct 09
  

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  • 1. Ideals beat strategies. What infuriates people most about Twitter is that it seems to have no plan, scheme, or angle. "Hey, Twitter" say the pundits: "don't you know the business of business is to profit, by any means necessary?"

    
    
    

    They're as wrong as Dubya was about Iraq. The business of business is to create value — and that's why Twitter's not playing the tired, old game of value extraction. It is trying, instead, to create a more authentic kind of value — and to do that, you need ideals. Twitter pursues its ideals — democracy, peace, equity — with the quiet intensity of a true revolutionary.

  • 5. Neighborhoods beat networks. Twitter's network effects don't feel much like standard ones. I can subscribe to your feed, yet you don't have to subscribe to mine — times millions. What's going on here? Twitter realizes neighborhood effects, not just network effects: complex sets of intersecting, overlapping, mutually reinforcing network effects. Oprah's followers are a neighborhood, and so are Ashton's. You can benefit from joining many of these neighborhoods — not just one larger network
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  • • 7. Laziness beats business. Twitter hasn't rushed to cram a "business model" down peoples' throats. Instead of back-slapping each other after cutting deals, the Twitter guys are lazy. Why? They're waiting to play, experiment, see what offers utility, creates value, and makes people truly better off. Business is too busy, most of the time, to care about any of that. Laziness says: "business models happen."
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  Here are Twitter's ten rules for radical innovators (which have, just maybe, had a bit of influence when it comes to Twitter).
  
  1. Ideals beat strategies.
  2. Open beats closed.
  3. Connection beats transaction.
  4. Simplicity beats complexity.
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  • Twitter is one of the world's most radical management innovators. It's revolutionary because it brings 21st Century DNA roaring raucously to life: it is a living expression of the new principles of organization and management we've been discussing.

    
    
    

    Here are Twitter's ten rules for radical innovators (which have, just maybe, had a bit of influence when it comes to Twitter).

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  • Here are Twitter's ten rules for radical innovators (which have, just maybe, had a bit of influence when it comes to Twitter).
  • 1. Ideals beat strategies.
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  • • The business of business is to create value — and that's why Twitter's not playing the tired, old game of value extraction. It is trying, instead, to create a more authentic kind of value — and to do that, you need ideals.
    • 2. Open beats closed.
    • 3. Connection beats transaction.
    • 4. Simplicity beats complexity.
    • 5. Neighborhoods beat networks.
    • 6. Circuits beat channels.
    • 7. Laziness beats business.
    • 8. Public beats private.
    • 9. Messy beats clean
    • 10. Good beats evil.
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  Twitter is one of the world's most radical management innovators. It's revolutionary because it brings 21st Century DNA roaring raucously to life: it is a living expression of the new principles of organization and management we've been discussing.

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  Umair Haque distills learnings and "messy heuristics" for innovators from looking at Twitter, watch out for the very interesting comments too.
  
  Snippet taken from the comments:
  "twitter is an interesting bug. people claim that they "get it", but don't participate. they often cite that they don't have time."

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  Laziness says: "business models happen."

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