The hardest work often takes place before you see any growth at all: leading breakthroughs requires a combination of great instincts and sheer guts.
"Real breakthroughs require risk and the ability to absorb failure, and large organisations are incapable of such risk taking," he says.Mr Musk is not waiting to win any prizes.
Two years ago, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab's Institute for Globally Transformative Technologies launched a study to identify the 50 most important technology breakthroughs required for sustainable global development so that all of us who work in the technology-for-development space can put our collective efforts towards them.
What's more, it's possible that our horizons have become too broad, and that real spiritual breakthroughs require a kind of narrowing — the decision to pick a path and stick with it, rather than hopscotching around in search of a synthesis that "works for me".
While all this may smack of science fiction, Jones asserts it's imminently doable, with no mind-bending technological breakthroughs required.
It's a crucial part of the autonomous driving experience, but more importantly, it's information that has potential for use in the nearer term in advanced safety systems and the semi-autonomous and accident mitigation tech that cars can ship with today, without undue cost or additional research breakthroughs required.
Leadership of breakthrough growth requires a sophisticated point of view on what is core while having the flexibility and will to shed everything else.
Sustaining breakthrough growth requires the ability to innovate both with and without technical edge, creating an integrated entity that can execute on bringing value to the market.
Breakthrough innovation requires formulating and executing a strategy of two contradictory ideas consisting of aspirations and current reality.
