Kris Østergaard is a sought after speaker, facilitator, researcher and expert on innovation in legacy organizations, corporate cultures and exponential organizations. He is co-founder and Chief Learning and Innovation Officer of SingularityU Nordic, a collaborative venture with Singularity University in Silicon Valley. His new book is Transforming Legacy Organizations: Turn Your Established Business into an Innovation Champion to Win the Future (Wiley, June 10, 2019).
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Fatima Kadarian
When business started difficulties overcame:
“ultimately once you sort of take the step… and for me taking the step was really about making my own decisions and being able to spend my time how I want to spend my time want to spend my time and not following somebody else’s vision but rather having the opportunity to follow my own vision. And I think the obstacle initially is to translate that vision into also sustainability in the sense that you can actually run your business and grow your and make enough money to make the wheels turn. And the hardest thing is always to get the ball rolling. Once the ball is rolling you get new problems but nevertheless it’s easier”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Man’s Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust Books by Viktor E FranklFavourite Quote:
“1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal;
2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it;
3) anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.” Douglas Adams
Recommended Online Resources:
- Singularity Hub – News and Insights on Technology, Science, and the Future from Singularity Hub and Singularity University
- Exponential View. Get smarter about the future
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“the best advice is persistence. Regardless of how difficult it is persistence is the key differentiator it’s not about ideas, ideas are a dime a dozen as the saying goes. It’s really about the people who have persistence and just don’t give up and continue to find new ways to achieve what it is they are trying to achieve. Those are the ones who will ultimately succeed”…[Listen for More]
More About Kris Østergaard:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more.” Oscar Wilde
Other Quotes From the Chat with Kris Østergaard:
- “there is a lot of mistakes along the way”
- “the notion of collaboration and the notion of finding partners, in many ways I have always had an open approach to partnering and always had a network mindset but nevertheless I still feel that I could have perhaps sooner and more ambitiously really explored much more openly how to create different types of partnerships with other companies, with individuals, with start-ups, et cetera. To really strongly believe in the notion of open innovation to get the ball rolling faster and opening up the world. I think it’s becoming clear and clearer to me as I grow and mature my business so I would have doubled down on that even more than I did from the beginning”
- “I think it’s really important to know, if you want to become an entrepreneur, why is it that you want to become an entrepreneur”
- “it’s about really not giving up. I mean certainly learning from your mistakes, so not doing the same mistakes over and over, but regardless of how many mistakes you make and regardless of how much of an uphill battle it is… Because being an entrepreneur and starting something from scratch and building it from scratch it is a lot of up Hill and they can be very high highs and there can be very low those. And there are a lot of those. It is very difficult. So the perseverance if you have a strong vision and the importance of having a strong vision of what you are trying to achieve and then the perseverance of regardless of what happens you will not let anything hit you so hard that you give up on that”
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