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the future is more important than ever
One of the most challenging things to convince people is the essential need to “look farther out.” Most people are so focused on the very near term – looking no more than…
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will words will break your bones?
Back in high school, I took a creative writing class in my Junior year because, at one point, I thought I was going to become a writer. That class was a total…
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why you shouldn’t suppress yourself
My wife and I sometimes watch sub-titled Japanese dramas. In essence, they are interestingly different from American fare, help me with my Japanese (hope to visit Tokyo sometime next year), and sometimes…
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Say Yes To Everything
Being a huge Star Trek fan – (growing up during reruns of the Original Series and the Animated Series, Kirk has always been the best captain – although I do share more…
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What Happens When You Succeed?
There are many, many, many stories of failure in the innovation world, the startup world, and the VC world. Interestingly, all three of those worlds treat failure differently: in the innovation world,…
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innovation starts with hr
Are You Hiring For Innovation? Do you know which role in your organization is ultimately responsible for innovation? Some people might guess the CTO or the CEO. If you have a dedicated…
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is the push for profitability erasing true innovation in your organization?
Even though we talk improving profitability, and our customers benefit from the profitable new ideas we help them generate, or generate for them, there are still plenty of innovative ideas which, when…
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To Innovate, Observe The Tripwires, Then Trip Them On Purpose.
Everyone who’s worked in teams and enterprises for any length of time knows that there are tripwires everywhere that people take great pains not to trip. They know that if they do…
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expose yourself to new everything and you generate real innovation
To innovate – you must absorb many different sources of information – especially in the areas not in the area you are trying to innovate in, let those percolate in your brain,…
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Are You Silencing Your Radicals?
In every company, there are troublemakers. These are the radicals, those who don’t toe the party line, they use different processes, they don’t go through channels, they might say or do things…
