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Have No Fear: Optimism Leads To Innovation
One of my favorite new thinkers is Jordan Peterson. I’m ankle deep in the audiobook of his first opus, Maps of Meaning, and am already engrossed in his thinking on how humans…
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Innovation Programs Are Good, Just Not Good Enough.
Like most big companies, you’ve probably run or are currently running, at least one internal innovation program. It might be small workshops, departmental level programs, the rollout of an enterprise idea management…
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Ways We Innovate: Randomized Lunching
Ever wonder why your rideshare driver is way more chatty than your typical cab driver? They may be doing this less for the money and more for the social interaction. I was…
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Elon Musk: Build Products That Bring Joy
If you look at the outcome from the epic two and a half hour interview that Elon Musk gave Joe Rogan, you’d think that all they did was smoke weed and drink.…
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We Need More Stern Robots In Our Lives
There was a recent article on an experiment in The New Scientist which explored human/robot interaction. They took three rooms of people and put a friendly robot in one room that hung out with…
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Our Content Needs To Go On A Diet
Time to fight the bloat Did you know that FOMO has been around since the 16th century? Back in 1525, Erasmus, among many others, opined that due to the printing press, that…
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When Is The Best Time To Experiment?
What better in innovation, thought experiments or real experiments? Many people, from philosophers to scientists, use thought experiments to determine the outcome of a hypothesis. In many of our futurist sessions, we generate…
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How To Staff Your Innovation Group
Fill It Full Of Doits, And You’ll Never Be Short Of Ideas A while back, I wrote a blog post about the two kinds of people in the world, the ShouldWes and…
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Ask Not If Your Idea Can Make Money, Ask If It Can Help Humans
A common refrain that I hear from individuals at some of the companies that we’ve worked with in the past (and some prospects who ultimately decide not to work with us) is…
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The Most Interesting Thing in The World
The Most Interesting Thing in The World Is In Your Pocket I was a fan of Last Man Standing before it was canceled and during a recent binge watch there was an…
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