Comments on: Refresh your enthusiasm for the job. https://berkonomics.com/?p=1725&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=refresh-your-enthusiasm-for-the-job Dave Berkus' business insights Wed, 12 Jun 2013 06:00:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Diane Ratican https://berkonomics.com/?p=1725&cpage=1#comment-8567 Wed, 12 Jun 2013 06:00:37 +0000 https://berkonomics.com/?p=1725#comment-8567 A good dose of “wonder” is necessary for the entrepreneur to remain enegetic. Wonder lights up your brain, all of its senses, triggers the curiosity points and gives you a natural high where everything becomes clearer.

]]> By: Cricket Lee https://berkonomics.com/?p=1725&cpage=1#comment-8565 Wed, 12 Jun 2013 04:34:36 +0000 https://berkonomics.com/?p=1725#comment-8565 Exactly what I needed today. Permission to step back and vision. Dave, I love your newsletter!

]]> By: Harry Keller https://berkonomics.com/?p=1725&cpage=1#comment-8563 Tue, 11 Jun 2013 20:42:07 +0000 https://berkonomics.com/?p=1725#comment-8563 Ideas such as this one seem so obvious in hindsight. That’s what makes them the best ideas, the ones you don’t think of until someone points them out to you. Then, you slap your head and say, “Yes!”

I was at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in the almost early days, 1974-1980. The company and each division (mine was LDP, laboratory data products) had this process. We called the offsite meetings “woods meetings” because they were supposedly held off in the woods where no one would bother you. The woods were figurative rather than literal.

In the end, DEC faltered and failed. They could not continue to foster the entrepreneurial spirit as they moved into being a billion-dollar company and a member of the Fortune-500.

The woods meetings and other things done to keep the entrepreneurial spirit alive kept this company going long after it would have in other companies.

Would that I or you had this problem!

Few people realize that DEC left its mark all over the world of computers. One example: Oracle left its original database behind and took over the one DEC had developed. For “one brief shining moment,” DEC was where innovation was king and everyone loved working there.

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