How a Nikola Tesla lesson changed the status quo.
NiKOLA TESLA…
…didn’t waste his attention looking to see what others were doing.
His focus was purely on what his ideas could offer to the world - even if there was no financial benefit to him.
His ideas were often stolen. Edison and Marconi took some of his ideas and used them as their own.
Tesla didn’t care. As long as the world benefited.
Many people didn’t accept his ideas. They were too way out and radical. Too futuristic.
Tesla didn’t care. As long as the world benefited.
Some of his ideas took an age to bear fruit. He had to be patient and struggle financially. Others would question his logic and understanding.
Tesla didn’t care. As long as the world benefited.
As an employee, he was promised $1,000,000 by Thomas Edison if he could produce an improvement in the DC motor. He did it but Edison said the offer was a joke and instead offered him a small pay increase.
Tesla didn’t care. As long as the world benefited.
A few years later, he demonstrated radio transmission. Unfortunately for him, a fire destroyed his lab as he was preparing the first real radio signal.
Marconi then took his ideas and his technology and won the Nobel Prize and the plaudits that go with it. Marconi had received all his financial support from Tesla’s rival Thomas Edison.
Tesla didn’t care. As long as the world benefited.
For him, money wasn’t everything. He realised if rewards were there to be had - then great. Creating ideas and making the world a better place was enough.
For him, creation first. Money later.
His goal was providing humanity with a better solution. Something more than the status quo. He looked outside his industry and challenged preconceptions. He changed society’s frame of reference to see things in a different way. And demonstrated what was possible.
Contractors in the service industry suffer from the perpetual loop of doing the same things in almost the exactly same way, day after day.
They compete with each other by supplying the same services, copying one another and hope there is an advantage in being cheaper, or faster, or nicer or whatever it takes to get the work on offer.
These things can be good but they won’t make our clients life any simpler, better or easier.
Using Tesla’s lead, Hub questioned our clients frame of reference.
We realised you don’t really want cheaper prices. You want prices that are fair and consistent.
You don’t necessarily want immediate and fast. You just want someone to turn up when they say they will.
You don’t want quick fixes. You want assurances that all repairs are permanent.
We took our lead from trailblazers like Tesla. We can’t create like him but we can replicate the way he challenged beliefs and preconceptions.
We’ve never let the status quo be an excuse for not thinking.
The Hub pledge:
Upfront pricing - so you know the cost before a spanner is even lifted.
Dependable timing - we turn up at the agreed time
12 month ‘no quibble’ guarantee - we stand behind our work. Always.