Luis Felipe Rego, IDSA | Smart Packaging Systems
Dupont Award for Packaging Innovation – 2012
A Design Award for Packaging Design – 2013
Best of Show Renewable Energy Apparatus – 1997
I have been in the Packaging Design Industry for almost 22 Years, always trying to change the equation, with innovation. Never believe what you are told, Until you prove-experience it by yourself.
My Personal recommendation for people who want to succeed in this market, Build a Robust Set of Essential Transferrable Skills: 1) Communication, make yourself Understood 2) Sell yourself, your skills 3) Teamwork, Play well with others- even if they are different 4) No more lone genius, Collectivism 5) Lead the Team, Management.
This is my experience.
Follow these basic steps from my friend Guy Kawasaki:
The Place of work needs to be Heaven
Think Different
Polarize People
Find Soul mates to Balance you
Define a Business Model ( ask a Woman, Create not Destroy)
Be specific, Who?
Keep it simple
Milestones, Assumptions and Tasks
Niche ( Ability to provide a unique product or service)
Great Value
Follow the Presentation 10/20/30
10 slides- 20 min- 30 point Font
Hire Infected People
Ignore the irrelevant
Follow your Soul
Hire Better than Yourself
Flatten the Learning Curve
Don’t ask people to do something that you wouldn’t
Embrace evangelists (Bringing the Good News)
Change the world for better
Enable test Drives of your product
Don’t let Bozos tell you can’t succeed.
Specialties:Visionary with Innovation, Creative with Structural, Mechanical, Geometrical Form, Proficiency.
www.smartpackagingssystems.com
