Category: Leadership

Intrepreneurship at Intuit

Post author By Bennett Blank
Post date April 10, 2016

“Large organizations are necessarily focused on running the business and managing for continuity. That’s not always a bad thing, but it seldom leaves much space for new ways of working.”
– Vinay Anand

A great HBR article about a few things we do at Intuit to support innovation and entrepreneurship: Click here to read more at HBR.

Make it easy to conduct the first experiments
Add structure to unstructured time
Support innovation, don’t control
Value “Return on Intelligence”
Create supporting stakeholders

Culture Design for Delight Leadership

Intuit CEO Supports Design for Delight – You Should Too.

Post author By Bennett Blank
Post date January 1, 2015

Talking and thinking about design wouldn’t accomplish much if it didn’t show up in our products.
– Brad Smith

HBR just published an insightful article about the design-driven culture we’re building at Intuit, written directly by our CEO, Brad Smith. Aside from being an inspirational leader, Brad has been a true champion of “design” since his first days as our CEO. He not only supports our efforts to teach every employee the basics of our Design for Delight philosophy, he actually walk the walk himself by visiting real customers, answering support calls during tax season, and listing to customer complaints. CEOs can learn a lot from his example…

Click here to read the entire article at HBR.com