Safi Bahcall
9 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 1, 2019 by Safi Bahcall · across every show →
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Apr 1, 2019
Bahcall: Leaders control company behavior through four structural design parameters
“It turns out when you work out the mathematics of this, of the incentives, the two forces, there are four control parameters inside organizations, elements of organizational design, and that the CEO, the executive team, the board has control over, just like yo…”
Apr 1, 2019
Bahcall: Innovation teams need wide management spans; operational teams need narrow spans
“If the group that's assembling planes, you want one kind of system, one kind of metric, you want narrow spans, you want high quality controls, the group that's creating crazy new technologies for those planes, you want those spans as wide as possible with very…”
Apr 1, 2019 negative
Bahcall: Companies reliant on top-down visionary leaders eventually fail
“So all the companies across history that have done that have failed spectacularly. They may survive for a while, you know, when there's a Moses on the mountain with a staff anointing the next holy loon shot. They may survive for a while, that's the hysteresis …”
Apr 1, 2019 neutral
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Apr 1, 2019
Bahcall: Company growth shifts employee incentives from innovation to corporate politics
“So somewhere between small and large, as you grow and you grow and you grow, all of a sudden the balance of incentives suddenly shift, and the same person, the same sonal, Would go from pounding the table, this is the most awesome idea, to kind of making fun o…”
Apr 1, 2019 positive
Bahcall: Sustained tech success requires valuing operators and creators equally
“And only by evolving and learning to love his artists and shoulders equally, that's when Things really took off. And that's why Vannevar Bush succeeded, and so many scientists before him failed, because soldiers love soldiers, artists love artists. He not only…”
Apr 1, 2019 negative
Apr 1, 2019 negative
Bahcall: The transistor was originally an incremental innovation at Bell Labs
“It was developed at Bell Labs, although it was based on a lot of federal research, but it was developed at Bell Labs while they were looking for better switches. By every definition, it was an incremental innovation, not a quote disruptive.”