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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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To Innovate, You Must Be Able to Change Your Mind
Altered States Lead to New Creates. In many of the exercises we run, try to alter the typical mindset of the attendees as soon as they arrive at the session. The sooner…
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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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Give Your People Vision, Responsibility and Freedom.
Trust Your People To Take the Right Path. When you look at your employees, what do you see? Do you see living, thinking, breathing intelligent human beings, with the great capacity to…
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What You Don’t Know Will Probably Hurt You.
Don’t Let The Fear of The Unknown Stop You From Innovating I’m not sure where the phrase “what you don’t know can’t hurt you,” came from, but it’s the opposite of how…
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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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Eliminating Human Bias By Eliminating Humans.
In a previous post, I talked about how Amazon shut down their AI-guided recruiting experiment because they could not successfully drive out bias, for both the learning data and the programmers. Since…
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