{"id":176,"date":"2003-09-03T03:07:53","date_gmt":"2003-09-03T07:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/2003\/09\/are_your_friends_causing_you_to_stagnate\/"},"modified":"2003-09-03T03:07:53","modified_gmt":"2003-09-03T07:07:53","slug":"are_your_friends_causing_you_to_stagnate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/03\/are_your_friends_causing_you_to_stagnate\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Your Friends Causing You to Stagnate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fast Company weblog has a couple of good posts about innovation and entrepreneurship.  They are &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.fastcompany.com\/archives\/2003\/08\/25\/want_to_innovate_dump_your_friends_.html\">Want To Innovate? Dump Your Friends<\/a>&#8216; and &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.fastcompany.com\/archives\/2003\/08\/26\/want_to_innovate_dump_your_friends_ii.html\">Want To Innovate? Dump Your Friends<\/a>&#8216;.   The titles sound a bit more harsh than the actual articles are though.  They simply raise the point that exposing yourself to new people, and thus new ideas, is critical to entrepreneurial success.   Here&#8217;s the bottom line advice from a Stanford Business School assistant professor:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cut the cord to the familiar faces around the water cooler.\n<\/li>\n<li>Mix it up.\n<\/li>\n<li>Take a class with strangers, seek out ideas from people you<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t ordinarily talk to, do anything to get out and mingle more with<br \/>\nfolks from other professions.\n<\/li>\n<li>Broaden your social horizons.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ve been lucky in that I have a very diverse group of friends, many of whom are entrepreneurs.  In fact two in particular gave me the encouragement to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/2003\/05\/breaking_it_down.html\">make me bail out of corporate America and go trade stocks for a living<\/a>.  And part of the reason I&#8217;ve been lax in posting here the last few days is due to another friend introducing me to a business venture.  But I&#8217;m taking heed of the above advice &amp; will look to expand my social circle even more.  I hope you all will do the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fast Company weblog has a couple of good posts about innovation and entrepreneurship. They are &#8216;Want To Innovate? Dump Your Friends&#8216; and &#8216;Want To Innovate? Dump Your Friends&#8216;. The titles sound a bit more harsh than the actual articles are though. They simply raise the point that exposing yourself to new people, and thus&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/03\/are_your_friends_causing_you_to_stagnate\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Are Your Friends Causing You to Stagnate?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/01\/amazon_vs_itunes\/","url_meta":{"origin":176,"position":0},"title":"Amazon vs. iTunes?","date":"July 1, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"The online music space is really heating up now. It's being reported that Amazon is entering the online music downloading fray. 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(I've copied the text of the article below) Grief WITHOUT closure Mysterious death leaves a father searching for answers David Simpson - Staff Thursday, May 20, 2004 Above his eyes, O.B. Okon's glasses perch on his forehead, making him\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogging&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/24\/future_of_tv_advertising\/","url_meta":{"origin":176,"position":5},"title":"Future of TV Advertising","date":"June 24, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Business 2.0 has an article analyzing the success of Honda's recent 'Cog' ad. The message is that if you make your ads interesting, people will not only watch them, they'll tell their friends to watch them as well. I certainly fall into this category. 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