{"id":852,"date":"2006-12-21T09:10:08","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T09:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/why_apple\/"},"modified":"2006-12-21T09:10:08","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T09:10:08","slug":"why_apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/why_apple\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Apple?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2006\/10\/20\/ipod-itunes-jobs-tech-media-cz_ec_1023valleyletter.html\">Forbes<\/a> is an interesting review of a new book on Apple.&nbsp; Ever wondered why Apple seems to be continually growing?&nbsp; A culture of innovation seems to be the difference maker.&nbsp; Of course risk taking ranks up there as well, but certainly new ideas and new products are key.&nbsp; Why doesn&#8217;t GM or Citigroup move in this direction?&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>So how do you foster a culture of innovation?&nbsp; I don&#8217;t claim to have all of the answers for that, but one thing is for sure you have to believe that you can never be comfortable.&nbsp; Some call that growth&#8230;I would agree.&nbsp; Human beings like things to stay the same.&nbsp; Human beings like things predictable.&nbsp; Ironically, life doesn&#8217;t live this way.&nbsp; Funny how businesses\/organizations hit their version of success and then they relax mentally.&nbsp; They perceive success as a place to protect.&nbsp; That is the beginning of the end.&nbsp; An organization begins to see risk and innovation as a threat.&nbsp; Oh sure, they&#8217;ll make innovation a &quot;talking point&quot; in a meeting, but truth is they really don&#8217;t want to rock the boat.<\/p>\n<p>Risk taking and innovation are the essential elements of phenomenal growth.&nbsp; Yet, the smartest people in the room can&#8217;t seem to get their arms around that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article from Forbes is an interesting review of a new book on Apple.&nbsp; Ever wondered why Apple seems to be continually growing?&nbsp; A culture of innovation seems to be the difference maker.&nbsp; Of course risk taking ranks up there as well, but certainly new ideas and new products are key.&nbsp; Why doesn&#8217;t GM or&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}