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Execution Matters, But So Do Ideas
You’ve probably heard a variation of this quote a thousand times: Ideas don’t matter. Ideas are a dime-a-dozen. Execution matters. This statement, like Schroedinger’s Cat being both dead and alive, is both…
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Peering Into the Spaces In-Between
In the Intellectual Property space, we have a service that exists solely to generate product ideas that may never see the light of day. This is called “Targeted IP Generation.” These ideas…
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Thinking About The Future Is Meaningless
A few posts back, I wrote a note about something I’d recently seen in one of the all-hands meetings of one of my clients. This financial services company had been in business…
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How to Be All Inclusive
Some may say that extroverts are always more successful than introverts. Some say the opposite. Some say that you need to be a bit of both. I think I’m an ambivert, a…
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The Human Brain Is an Amazing Thing
Something I learned: the human brain is a fantastic thing. Have you ever looked around you and marveled at your surroundings (unless you are sitting in a forest right now) and realized…
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Who Do You Trust? The Expert, The Computer or Yourself?
Since we are hurtling rapidly towards a future where we will have the choices above, who will you pick? Imagine a time in a not too distant future. Let’s say that you…
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Constraints Are The Best
We live in a fantastic time. We now have more processing power in our watches than we used to have on our desks or even in giant server rooms. But the lack…
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Are You Plussing Or Minusing?
Ever been in an ideation session which pits the DoIts against the ShouldWes? Yep – first the DoIts pitch an idea, and then the Should Wes shoot it down. The DoIts are…
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Party For Results, Not Rank
Looking to make your business more innovative? Stop celebrating promotions. The corporate world is an interesting place. For the longest time, it was mired in a hierarchical structure, with workers reporting to…
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Are You Ready to Change Your Mind?
Everyone thinks that plans are essential, and they are, to an extent, but so is resilience. Years ago, I read an article that compared the differences between the east coast and the…
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