Gorny’s Innovation Playbook: Failure is free education
Be ready to change or be changed.
Tomas Gorny_ CEO of Nextiva and a famous great of IT innovation_ took this phrase as the ultimate challenge. This comeback kid took his rags and wrapped them around his riches. Today, we follow-up his innovation journey to see how he made it out on top after everything he experienced.
First failure to thrive only sparked drive in Gorny:
Gorny had the mind of a millionaire from day one. He was 17 when he developed his first web hosting service called IPOWER. While it failed, Gorny took the lessons derived from an experience that crushes weaker minds and capitalized on it.
“All I knew to do was build companies,” said Gorny. Being a millionaire by 22 …show more content…
The best and brightest in your profession are out there trying to make it like you. Working with them is the way to analyze and solve even the buggiest of the problems. Take this as another memo from the life of Tomas Gorny. They don’t call it “UnitedWeb” because it sounds American.
Challenge yourself:
Thomas Edison was one of the greats in innovation (did that light bulb go off in your head yet? Yeah, he created the incandescent. You’re welcome). He was asked about his failure to produce a working lightbulb the first 99 times. You’ve heard this line before, haven’t you? The one where innovator says “I didn’t fail. I just found 99 ways that didn’t work”
There will be days when you’re ready to rip the keys from their sockets. You won’t always get it on the first 99 tries. Still, there is no such thing as failure. Do what you know. Challenge yourself. On that 100th, you just might get where you’re heading at last.
No idea is too wild:
Another one from Gorny’s playbook that’s become famous. He is known for encouraging his employees to come forward with all their ideas.
Nothing is too wild. The dreamers are the doers in this business. That’s why they call it “innovation” and not rehab for “dinosaur
Be ready to change or be changed.
Tomas Gorny_ CEO of Nextiva and a famous great of IT innovation_ took this phrase as the ultimate challenge. This comeback kid took his rags and wrapped them around his riches. Today, we follow-up his innovation journey to see how he made it out on top after everything he experienced.
First failure to thrive only sparked drive in Gorny:
Gorny had the mind of a millionaire from day one. He was 17 when he developed his first web hosting service called IPOWER. While it failed, Gorny took the lessons derived from an experience that crushes weaker minds and capitalized on it.
“All I knew to do was build companies,” said Gorny. Being a millionaire by 22 …show more content…
The best and brightest in your profession are out there trying to make it like you. Working with them is the way to analyze and solve even the buggiest of the problems. Take this as another memo from the life of Tomas Gorny. They don’t call it “UnitedWeb” because it sounds American.
Challenge yourself:
Thomas Edison was one of the greats in innovation (did that light bulb go off in your head yet? Yeah, he created the incandescent. You’re welcome). He was asked about his failure to produce a working lightbulb the first 99 times. You’ve heard this line before, haven’t you? The one where innovator says “I didn’t fail. I just found 99 ways that didn’t work”
There will be days when you’re ready to rip the keys from their sockets. You won’t always get it on the first 99 tries. Still, there is no such thing as failure. Do what you know. Challenge yourself. On that 100th, you just might get where you’re heading at last.
No idea is too wild:
Another one from Gorny’s playbook that’s become famous. He is known for encouraging his employees to come forward with all their ideas.
Nothing is too wild. The dreamers are the doers in this business. That’s why they call it “innovation” and not rehab for “dinosaur