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Nilofer Merchant

Los Gatos, California

TED speaker, Nilofer Merchant began her career at Apple, has since been a CEO, run Fortune 500 orgs, built and exited start-ups, and has launched over 100 products that account for $18B in revenues. Bragging rights: Best selling author, Social Era Rules (Harvard Business Press) named by Fast Company as one of the Best Business Books of 2012. The New How (Oreilly Media Press) published in 2010 was critically acclaimed. Writes for Oprah, Wired, and HBR today. Board Director for both public and private ecommerce orgs. Teaches at Stanford University on Innovation.

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Market Growth

What I learned from my Steve Jobs moment. To grow new markets means making yourself uncomfortable. It means you can't keep doing more of what got you here. You need to also look into the lens of the future and imagine what you could be. Just as people are always living at the intersection of our history and our dreams, so too are companies. Until we decide to stop avoiding risk and embrace the discomfort of creating, we will keep measuring nascent ideas against established, proven businesses. That is the epitome of managing to yesterday's business, rather than inventing the future. Which only leads to more of the same. And that's not enough anymore.

http://(talk at Harvard Business Review) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqnPlRVJo6s

Social Era Business

The most simple truth has deep implications. Today, the average person has access to information that 20 years ago, only the richest billionaire did. And that changes what we can do in business, the models we can create, the leadership needed and even the very ethos that we function by. It's the Social Era, and it means change for all of us.

http://(talk at Authors @ Google) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOp7r4QGcyI

Framing Problems

The way we hold a problem leads itself to solving that problem. Gave a TED talk (TED Long Beach, 2013) on a specific way in which that played itself out but the larger skill is about how to frame a problem so you resolve the inherent conflict which is often the reason you're not making progress.

http://www.ted.com/talks/nilofer_merchant_got_a_meeting_take_a_walk.html

Speaking

Nilofer has spoken at TED, Google, Fortune's Most Powerful Women's summit and all sorts of other grandiose venues. She's a phenomenal speaker not only in content but in delivery and connection.

http://on.ted.com/nilofer

Being Your Own Hero

The first step to unlocking talent in the #SocialEra is celebrating something I’ve termed onlyness.

Onlyness is that thing that only that one individual can bring to a situation. It includes the journey and passions of each human. Onlyness is fundamentally about honoring each person: first as we view ourselves and second as we are valued. Each of us is standing in a spot that no one else occupies. That unique point of view is born of our accumulated experience, perspective, and vision. And until we celebrate onlyness, we are not honoring the person. And, until you unlock your onlyness, you are not fully alive. And, collectively, until we honor onlyness, we are limiting ourselves, our organizations and our economies.

http://(talk at TEDxHouston) http://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=h-8MXo-tJoQ

Member since June 2013