James Dyson on Negative Feedback
November 30, 2013 Leave a comment
James Dyson on Negative Feedback
November 27, 2013
Dyson’s first invention was the Rotork Sea Truck, a watercraft he sold while in art school
James Dyson
Managing director, Dyson
Net worth: $4.4 billion
How do you deal with negative feedback?
—@amalt
You learn from it. Often it starts a line of development: Well, yes, that person said they want a light vacuum, which is impossible, because motors are very heavy. So you say, “We might develop light electric motors—no one’s ever done it before; we must do it.” About 18 years ago, we set off on that journey. It took us 15 years before we launched a revolutionary small, light motor. Negative feedback is really interesting. I enjoy it in a masochistic way.