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Are You Growing Square Tomatoes?
Remember the square tomato? Or if you don’t remember the square tomato – what about the square watermelon? If you don’t, I forgive you – these was very forgettable experiments in the grocery…
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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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Break Out Of Your Bubble
Now, more than ever (BTW, don’t you hate that phrase too), we live constrained within our own little realities. Our own little bubbles. Sometimes we build these realities on our own, and…
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What Do You Know?
Try this exercise. First, draw a circle. Imagine that this circle is all human knowledge. Now, add a wedge to represent what you know. Most people add a visible wedge. I usually…
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You Need To Compete To Innovate
One of the key reasons why many feel their companies are stuck not innovating is that they are no longer driven by the same kind of competitive urge that drives startups. They…
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Calling All Founders: To Build A Platform for All Humans
Many people bemoan that we have to keep moving from platform to platform, as they evolve from person-to-person communications tools to megaphones for big media. Take podcasting, for example: I first heard…
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7 Looks Back At 2021
Yes, you read that right. This post will be written on December 31st, 2021, but was published on December 31st, 2020. As a futurist, we are usually right, but at the wrong…
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Escaping the Innovation Purge – Part 2
In last weeks blog post, we discussed the innovation purge – the “disease” which seems to strike corporates once every few years or so, when they realize that the innovation group that…
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Are You Caught in the Innovation Purge? Part 1
Sometimes, you can almost feel it coming. It’s a palatable thing. The innovation purge. It goes something like this: A new leader or leadership team decides that your company is flagging on…
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Now What? Dealing With The Disruption Rollercoaster….
Not again. You thought you had this whole COVID thing down. You moved all of your folks to work-from-home and got ready for the new normal, but you never thought it would…
