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Innovation = Controlled Chaos
Recently I heard a speaker on a video on the topic of innovation completely discredit the innovation process as being messy. He flatly denied that innovation is a chaotic and serendipitous process.…
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The Internet Is Theft
Copying Is Profitable, But Is It Innovative? Does It Have To Be? The Internet Is Theft – Me During a course on launching disruptive technologies, the professor turned his nose up at…
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Ways We Innovate: Take the Hour Off
In many of our ideation sessions, we hold specific exercises to trigger new thinking. These range from physical movements, to mental games, to postulating concepts. We almost always keep the attendees to…
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Appetite For Risk = Appetite For Innovation
What is your propensity for risk? I heard from a colleague of mine that a company a friend of his works for is working through their performance objectives for the year. After…
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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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Just Start And Keep Going
As of today, I’ve written nearly 500 posts for this blog, recorded approximately 250 podcasts, and recorded over 60 innovation videos (not counting the other 300 plus videos I recorded in my…
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Libra : Facebook Finally Innovates
Libra Rocks the Financial World. If you’ve been under a rock, you might not be aware that Facebook, with several other partners (who include among them, Uber, Lyft, PayPal, Visa, but no…
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Don’t Do Your Best!
Stop Trying to Excel! If you watch anime or read manga, you’ll come across pretty common phrase – when a character is about to complete a task or do something that they…
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Executing The Future Creates It.
Timing Really Is Most Everything I’ve said many times before, being a futurist is like being a meteorologist, you are usually right, but at the wrong time. I think it’s futurist’s bane…
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How Far Down The Road Are You Looking?
Are You Future Focused Enough? As humans, we’ve been biased to go after short term results over long term results ever since we were primitives wandering the savannah. The ability to plan…
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